"Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market."

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"Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market."

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"He is poor indeed that can promise nothing."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish Novelist

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"Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand."

Simone Weil, French Philosopher

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"I see that all of us who live are nothing but images or insubstantial shadow."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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"All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing."

David Herbert Lawrence, English Writer

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"Nothing very very good and nothing very very bad ever lasts for very very long."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger."

Agatha Christie, English Writer

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"Generally speaking, everyone is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything."

Gertrude Stein, American Author

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"A witty saying proves nothing."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"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."

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"I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible."

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"And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there... Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will."

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"The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting."

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"The jargon of sculptors is beyond me. I do not know precisely why I admire a green granite female, apparently pregnant monster with one eye going around a square corner."

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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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"Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear."

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"If a patron buys from an artist who needs money, the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates."

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"Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand."

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