"I've been writing about James Fenimore Cooper. He was not a writer. Here was a man who was 30 years old and had never put anything more than his signature on paper."

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"I've been writing about James Fenimore Cooper. He was not a writer. Here was a man who was 30 years old and had never put anything more than his signature on paper."

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"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"Let no such man be trusted."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

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"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."

George Eliot, British Author

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"Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

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"A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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"A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good."

Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman

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"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle."

Edmund Burke, Irish Statesman

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"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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"Kafka is still unrecognized. He thought he was a comic writer."

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"Jane Austen is at the end of the line that begins with Samuel Richardson, which takes wonder and magic out of the novel, treats not the past but the present."

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"Critics? How do they happen? I know how it happened to me. I would send a poem or story to a magazine and they would say this doesn't suit our needs precisely but on the other hand you sound interesting. Would you be interested in doing a review?"

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"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."

"Let no such man be trusted."

"We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members."

"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."

"Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts."

"A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery."

"A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good."

"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary."

"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle."

"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him."

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"The reason Saul Bellow doesn't talk to me anymore is because he knows his new novels are not worth reading."

"I've been writing about James Fenimore Cooper. He was not a writer. Here was a man who was 30 years old and had never put anything more than his signature on paper."

"I used to be fond of Indian arm wrestling."

"Kafka is still unrecognized. He thought he was a comic writer."

"Jane Austen is at the end of the line that begins with Samuel Richardson, which takes wonder and magic out of the novel, treats not the past but the present."

"My assignment is what every writer's assignment is: tell the truth of his own time."

"The black situation has changed. They finally realized they're Americans."

"The middlebrow, I hate."

"When all of us are forgotten, people will still be remembering Stephen King."

"Critics? How do they happen? I know how it happened to me. I would send a poem or story to a magazine and they would say this doesn't suit our needs precisely but on the other hand you sound interesting. Would you be interested in doing a review?"