"I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher."

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"I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher."

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"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

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"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

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"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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"If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

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"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Quit aspiring and dreaming and start being."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"Stop aspiring and start being. The world needs you!"

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"I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

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"To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present."

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"As long as my sixth graders showed an average improvement of five years, the principal and district pretty much left me alone to create my own curriculum and teach whatever I wanted."

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"As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction."

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"No one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published."

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"Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher."

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"It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another."

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"The truth is, it's not a great career move to create a readership and then, in effect, abandon them."

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"There's a unique bond of trust between readers and authors that I don't believe exists in any other art form; as a reader, I trust a novelist to give me his or her best effort, however flawed."

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"It's odd how violence and humor so often go together, isn't it?"

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"Movie SF is, by definition, dumbed down - there have only been three or four SF movies in the history of film that aspire to the complexity of literary SF."

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