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Unity is a beast in itself. If a wolf sees two little boys playing in the woods on one side, and a big strong man on the other, he will go to the one who stands alone.

Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

The best proof that He will never cease to love us lies in that He never began.

Redemptive History and Biblical Interpretation: The Shorter Writings of Geerhardus Vos

Passion has helped us; but can do so no more. It will in future be our enemy. Reason, cold, calculating, unimpassioned reason, must furnish all the materials for our future support and defence.

Speeches and Writings, 1832-1858

I think about how language works so I can best explain how language works.

The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century

Think of a ballet dancer at the barre. Plie, eleve, battement tendu. She is practicing, because she knows that there is no difference between practice and art. The practice is the art.

Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life

It is, of course, not only impossible for readers to know the intention of most, if not all, writers, but an author himself may think he is writing one thing while he is in fact writing something quite different.

Sexual Repression And Victorian Literature

They who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. —written for the Pennsylvania Assembly in its , 11 November 1755

Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin

My first feeling was that there was no way to continue. Writing isn't like math;in math, two plus two always equals four no matter what your mood is like. With writing, the way you feel changes everything.

Midnight Sun

The fear of blacks has become the dirty little secret of our political culture.

The Norman Podhoretz Reader: A Selection of His Writings from the 1950s Through the 1990s

A novel rough draft is like bread dough; you need to beat the crap out of it for it to rise.

No Plot? No Problem!: A Low-Stress, High-Velocity Guide to Writing a Novel in 30 Days

You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich. A certain ruthlessness and a sense of alienation from society is as essential to creative writing as it is to armed robbery.

Nonconformity

Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind, and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect. [ ]

Letters and Other Writings of James Madison Volume 3

You’re saying we can write our own destiny,” I said, feeling too jaded and stubborn in the moment to believe it. “I am saying,” he said carefully, “that this is not the end of the story. Not the way I am writing it.

Love, in English

Perhaps writing a story or a novel was not something that should be done for money, or to win praise, but for the sheer sensual pleasure of it. I liked that idea. It made me want to write lots of stories, to give myself that pleasure.

Love Has No Limits

The true way to live is to enjoy every moment as it passes, and surely it is in the everyday things around us that the beauty of life lies.

Laura Ingalls Wilder, Farm Journalist: Writings from the Ozarks

In the deepest hour of the night, confess to yourself that you would die if you were forbidden to write. And look deep into your heart where it spreads its roots, the answer, and ask yourself, must I write?

Letters to a Young Poet

I love writing, and the feeling it brings me can’t be described by words. So here are a few grunting noises that capture my mood when I write: ugh, eek, umph, and ahh!

Love quotes for the ages. And the ageless sages.

I haven't been to a movie for three months of Sundays. I gather from what Carolyn reports that Hollywood now produces false entertainment: unmitigated violence on the screen; snickering, laughter in the audience.

M: Writings '67-'72

Power and profit structures're out of cahoots with current technology. Aware of new inventions, corporations put them aside, waiting for competitive reasons until they're obliged to use new gimmicks.

M: Writings '67-'72

The writer’s life requires courage, patience, empathy, openness. It requires the ability to be alone with oneself. Gentle with oneself. To be disciplined, and at the same time, take risks.

Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life

I started writing poetry and philosophy when I was 17 years old and my mind so was wild. Now I'm 56 and I often want to write like a child.

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