"Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed."

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Elbert Hubbard

#Business Quotes #Writing Quotes #Editors Quotes

“Each of us has a private Austen.”

Source : Karen Joy Fowler (2005). “The Jane Austen Book Club”, p.1, Penguin
“A person with taste is merely one who can recognize the greatest beauty in the simplest things.”

Source : FaceBook post by Barbara Taylor Bradford from Sep 21, 2014
“Dr. King kept guns in his home to protect himself and his family. After firebombing and numerous death threats by racists, his application for a permit to carry a gun was denied by the 'may issue' white power structure (Democrat) in that time and place. Let the holiday that celebrates this manâ€™s life include some reflection on the importance of the Second Amendment.”
“To all appearances, the artist acts like a mediumistic being who, from the labyrinth beyond time and space, seeks his way out to a clearing. If we give the attributes of a medium to the artist, we must then deny him the state of consciousness on the aesthetic plane about what he is doing or why he is doing it. All his decisions in the artistic execution of the work rest with pure intuition and cannot be translated into a self-analysis, spoken or written, or even thought out.”
“A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.”
“My worries always lead to dungeons; I can't imagine a worse thing than to be imprisoned for the rest of one's life, especially with so few years to enjoy what little there is.”

Source : Lauren DeStefano (2011). “The Seeds of Wither: EBook Sampler with Exclusive Short Story”, p.38, Simon and Schuster
“Allowing someone else to make us happy will make them happy too.”
“You got to learn to take what people are willing to give.”

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