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"I'm a schoolteacher and a writer. So that's what I do."
"I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best."
"And you find as a writer there are certain spots on the planet where you write better than others, and I believe in that. And New Orleans is one of them."
"Good writers are of necessity rare."
"The so-called feminist writers were disgusted with me. I did my thing, and so I guess by feminist standards I'm a feminist. That suits me fine."
"Writers never feel comfortable having labels attached to them, however accurate they are."
"I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist."
"I would say the next imminent hot writers are often the writers from the decade before you were born."
Explore more quotes by T. S. Eliot
"To country people Cows are mild,And flee from any stick they throw;But I'm a timid town bred child,And all the cattle seem to know."
"If the lost word is lost, if the spent word is spentIf the unheard, unspokenWord is unspoken, unheard;Still is the spoken word, the Word unheard,The Word without a word, the Word withinThe world and for the world;And the light shone in the darkness andAgainst the Word the unstilled world still whirledAbout the center of the silent Word.Oh my people, what have I done unto thee.Where shall the word be found, where shall the wordResound? Not here, there is not enough silence."
"If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby "it.""
"Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know."
"There is no water, so things are bad. If there were water, it would be better. But there is no water."
"The dripping blood our only drink,The bloody flesh our only food:In spite of which we like to thinkThat we are sound, substantial flesh and blood--Again, in spite of that, we call this Friday good."
"If we take the widest and wisest view of a Cause, there is no such thing as a Lost Cause because there is no such thing as a Gained Cause. We fight for lost causes because we know that our defeat and dismay may be the preface to our successors' victory, though that victory itself will be temporary; we fight rather to keep something alive than in the expectation that anything will triumph."
"It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind."
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