John Clellon Holmes famous quotes

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The selection of a book-plate is such a serious matter.
I always thought the name of Utahâ€™s major newspaper was some sort of weird misspelling of the word â€œdesert.â€ But no, Deseret is the â€œland of the honeybee,â€ according to the Book of Mormon. I guess I should have figured they would have caught a typo in the masthead after 154 years.
Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
Think it over, think it under.
Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.
My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.
Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail
I should still be in jail.
Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.
The presumption of innocence only means you don't go right to jail.

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