"There is such a thing as literary fashion, and prose and verse have been regulated by the same caprice that cuts our coats and ***** our hats."

-- Isaac D'Israeli

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“If our words are not consistent with our actions, they will never be heard above the thunder of our deeds.”

Source : H. Burke Peterson (1986). “A glimpse of glory”, Bookcraft, Incorporated
“People who say "It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all" never felt a broken heart.”
“Yet simple souls, their faith it knows no stint: Things least to be believed are most preferred. All counterfeits, as from truth's sacred mint, Are readily believed if once put down in print”
“When enough people agree on something, I'd be an idiot, if I didn't listen.”

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“One of the things I recognized early on, doing whatever studies of black history I have, is that even though black folks were transported as slaves, into servitude, when they were carried out of Africa they left empty-handed, but they didn't leave empty-headed. They carried with them the culture they knew, the culture they had, and that culture reconstituted itself in all the places they went.”

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“Oh, you'll not be any poorer if you smile along your way. And your lot will not be harder for the kindly things you say. Don't imagine you are wasting time for others that you spend. You can rise to wealth and glory and still pause to be a friend.”

Source : Edgar Guest (1916). “A Heap o' Living'”
“All these people talking about morality should just take a walk downtown. They don't want to go downtown because instantly they see homeless people and they don't want to.”
“...if you are writing without zest, without gusto, without love, without fun, you are only half a writer. It means you are so busy keeping one eye on the commercial market, or one ear peeled for the avant-garde coterie, that you are not being yourself. You don't even know yourself. For the first thing a writer should be is-- excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms.”

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