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"A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people."
"Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people."
"This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance."
"Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad."
"People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom."
Explore more quotes by George Bancroft
"The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force."
"By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy."
"The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred."
"The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority."
"If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth."
"Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape."
"Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement."
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