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"Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use."
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"Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle."
"I really enjoy myself in Norway. Because I had started losing confidence in my ability of what I do. But sometimes, man, you just get tired of fighting and trying to prove yourself."
"Pluripotent cells have the ability to grow into any cell in the body."
"The difference between a top-flight creative man and the hack is his ability to express powerful meanings indirectly."
"A book comes and says, "Write me." My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate."
"Our ability to effectively engage China and the Arab world rests on shared economic and political interests and mutual understanding."
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"Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it."
"If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point."
"People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf."
"The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people."
"If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval."
"Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents."
"Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding."
"I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later."
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