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"I'm a schoolteacher and a writer. So that's what I do."

"As a very experienced writer once told me, 'It's in the rewrites'."

"Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers."

"I think Juan stopped short - he got halfway to the destination and got off the train. He is certainly an excellent writer and a good person, but I'm not a nationalist."

"If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer."

"I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best."
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"Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly."


"When the Stranger says: "What is the meaning of this city ?Do you huddle close together because you love each other? What will you answer? "We all dwell togetherTo make money from each other? or "This is a community? Oh my soul, be prepared for the coming of the Stranger.Be prepared for him who knows how to ask questions."


"But the Church cannot be, in any political sense, either conservative or liberal, or revolutionary. Conservatism is too often conservation of the wrong things: liberalism a relaxation of discipline; revolution a denial of the permanent things."


"There are three conditions which often look alikeYet differ completely, flourish in the same hedgerow:Attachment to self and to things and to persons, detachmentFrom self and from things and from persons; and, growing between them, indifference, ... ."
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