"When I have my students do erasures, I'm always amazed by the way their voice comes through, whether they're doing an erasure of a romance novel or an encyclopedia. Your sensibility will out."

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Matthea Harvey

#Voice Quotes #Romance Quotes #Way Quotes

“It would be hypocritical of me to take issue with anything in questionable taste, seeing that I invented bad taste in films.”
“It's going to be crazy. All eight teams here are good teams. Hopefully the atmosphere will be great because it's going to be great basketball.”
“On many occasions in the late 1950s and 1960s, [Ho Chi Minh's] ideas were apparently ignored by those who felt that his approach was too naive and prone to compromise. The outbreak of open warfare with the French and later with the United States was in effect a sign of the failure of Ho Chi Minh to achieve his objective to fight and win at low cost.”
“Five years from now I see myself still working hard to get where I want to be, because I think big.”
“My body is precious and not separate from my soul.”
“If you want to study writing, read Dickens. That's how to study writing, or Faulkner, or D.H. Lawrence, or John Keats. They can teach you everything you need to know about writing.”
“I'm the most insecure guy in Hollywood. If you had it good all your life, you figure it can't ever get bad, but when you had it bad, you wonder how long a thing like this will last”
“The virtuous soul that is alone and without a master is like a long lone burning coal; it will grow colder rather than hotter.”

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