Kenneth Slessor famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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This writing business. Pencils and what-not. Over-rated, if you ask me. Silly stuff. Nothing in it.
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Because of a friend, life is a little stronger, fuller, more gracious thing for the friend's existence, whether he be near or far. If the friend is close at hand, that is best; but if he is far away he still is there to think of, to wonder about, to hear from, to write to, to share life and experience with, to serve, to honor, to admire, to love.
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I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.
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The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.
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Hell will be filled with people who were avidly committed to Christian values.
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I don't care where I'm from, nor where I'm going. From hell to hell.
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To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.
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I take no pleasure in the fact that the scientific predictions I've relayed to popular audiences turn out to be true.
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Pleasure has no logic; it never treads in its own footsteps.
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It is a characteristic of pleasure that we can never recognize it to be pleasure till after it is gone.
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