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"You know lots of criticism is written by characters who are very academic and think it is a sign you are worthless if you make jokes or kid or even clown. I wouldn't kid Our Lord if he was on the cross. But I would attempt a joke with him if I ran into him chasing the money changers out of the temple."

Hemingway, Ernest | Literary Criticism | 3 bookmarks

"My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible. The game of golf would lose a good deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green. You ought to be able to show that you can do it a good deal better than anyone else with the regular tools before you have a license to bring in your own improvements."

Hemingway, Ernest | Grammar | 3 bookmarks

"Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones."

Hemingway, Ernest | Exaggeration | 2 bookmarks

"As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary."

Hemingway, Ernest | Age and Aging | 4 bookmarks

"The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem."

Rubin, Theodore I. | Problems | 2 bookmarks

"It is never safe to look into the future with eyes of fear."

Harriman, Edward H. | Vision | 2 bookmarks

"Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved-to write a book."

Gibbon, Edward | Learning | 2 bookmarks

"It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive failure of imagination. If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed."

Dillard, Annie | Faith | 1 bookmarks

"I don't know what it is about fecundity that so appalls. I suppose it is the teeming evidence that birth and growth, which we value, are ubiquitous and blind, that life itself is so astonishingly cheap, that nature is as careless as it is bountiful, and that with extravagance goes a crushing waste that will one day include our own cheap lives."

Dillard, Annie | Fertility | 1 bookmarks

"I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aging and eaten and have done my share of eating too. I am not washed and beautiful, in control of a shining world in which everything fits, but instead am wondering awed about on a splintered wreck I've come to care for, whose gnawed trees breathe a delicate air, whose bloodied and scarred creatures are my dearest companions, and whose beauty bats and shines not in its imperfections but overwhelmingly in spite of them..."

Dillard, Annie | Growth | 1 bookmarks

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So the most restless vagabond finally longs to return to his native land and finds in his little cottage, at the breast of his wife, in the circle of his children, in the labor of supporting them, the bliss he sought in vain in the great world. - Goethe, The Sufferings of Young Werther (tr. Harry Steinhauer)

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