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memories book writing
Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention; there are many books that owe their success to two things; good memory of those who write them, and the bad memory of those who read them Charles Caleb Colton
memories mind firsts
Of all the faculties of the mind, memory is the first that flourishes, and the first that dies.
memories book reader
Many books owe their success to the good memories of their authors and the bad memories of their readers.
memories teaching should-have
All preceptors should have that kind of genius described by Tacitus, "equal to their business, but not above it;" a patient industry, with competent erudition; a mind depending more on its correctness than its originality, and on its memory rather than on its invention.
memories dictator amnesia
Where would dictators be without our compliant amnesia? Make the collective lose its memory, you can conceal anything. Charles Stross
memories liberty might
If I forget, then it might as well never have happened. Memory is liberty.
memories heart passion
Oh, to have “the word of Christ” always dwelling inside of us;-in the memory, never forgotten; in the heart, always loved; in the understanding, really grasped; with all the powers and passions of the mind fully submitted to its control! Charles Spurgeon
memories past reality
We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time, in which the so-called present moment is felt as nothing but an infinitesimal hairline between a causative past and an absorbingly important future. We have no present. Our consciousness is almost completely preoccupied with memory and expectation. We do not realize that there never was, is, nor will be any other experience than present experience. We are therefore out of touch with reality. Alan Watts
memories dark childhood
Memory's so treacherous. One moment you're lost in a carnival of delights with poignant childhood aromas, the flashing neon on puberty, all that sentimental candyfloss The next, it leads you somewhere you don't want to go.. Somewhere dark and cold, filled with the damp ambiguous shapes of things you'd hoped were forgotten. Alan Moore
literature weapons
My weapon is literature Chinua Achebe
literature easy teach
I teach literature. That's easy for me. Take someone else's work and talk about it.
literature places-to-go needs
There's always some place to go. You don't need workshops, you don't need friends necessarily, you can be befriended by literature itself. Edward Hirsch
literature occupation merit
Such a superiority do the pursuits of literature possess above every other occupation, that even he who attains but a mediocrity in them, merits the pre-eminence above those that excel the most in the common and vulgar professions. David Hume
literature very-happy walkers
I am very, very happy for Alice Walker. Audre Lorde
literature universal-love kinky
We're supposed to see "universal" love as heterosexual. What I insist upon in my work is that there is no such thing as universal love in literature.
literature disease molecules
And what is literature, Rabo," he said, "but an insider's newsletter about affairs relating to molecules, of no importance to anything in the universe but a few molecules who have the disease called 'thought'. Kurt Vonnegut
literature stories guilty
Dan Rather is guilty of not being skeptical enough about a story that was politically loaded. Bill O'Reilly
literature privilege reason
Religion is dogmatic. Politic is ideological. Reason must be logical, but literature has a privilege of being equivocal. Carlos Fuentes
nails hammers acceptable
There is a joke that your hammer will always find nails to hit. I find that perfectly acceptable Benoit Mandelbrot
nails polish nail-polish
Actually, I wear the nail polish to hide how grubby my nails are. Caroline Corr
nails shots
For him to make those shots at the end, it's a little like daggers, nails in the coffin. Lee Melchionni
nails bites
I am what I eat. And I am this especially when I bite my nails. Demetri Martin
nails matter deputies
Well the deputy walks on hard nails and the preacher rides a mount, But nothing really matters much it's doom alone that counts. Bob Dylan
nails study
This new study really nails down that link. Judith Curry
nails lions audience
I have a generally liberal audience, but they will applaud when I nail a liberal lion. Stephen Colbert
nails polish concessions
My one concession to American sensibilities was to remove my nail polish. Sebastian Horsley
nails crosses
Nails didn't hold God to a cross. Love did. Max Lucado