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Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • The same hot lightning that burns your blood with passion–– cools your fears with peace.

  • Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

  • Shun fear, it is the ague of the soul! a passion man created for himself--for sure that cramp of nature could not dwell in the warm realms of glory.

  • Curiosity, which may or may not eventuate in something useful, is probably the most outstanding characteristic of modern thinking ... Institutions of learning should be devoted to the cultivation of curiosity, and the less they are deflected by the consideration of immediacy of application, the more likely they are to contribute not only to human welfare, but to the equally important satisfaction of intellectual interest, which may indeed be said to have become the ruling passion of intellectual life in modern times.

  • When a passion is not realized ... it fades away, or becomes ideal worship--Dante--Petrarch--that sort of thing!

  • I’m not a fan of ‘write what you know.’ If you don’t know, find out. I knew nothing about the Bible before I started writing ‘The Year of Living Biblically.’ That was kind of the point – to learn.

  • I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.

  • I can write better than anyone who can write faster,

  • The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.

  • When I write I have no loyalty except to historical truth as I see it and care no more about British achievements and mistakes than any other.

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