"There's no substitute for the love of language, for the beauty of an English sentence. There's no substitute for struggling, if a struggle is needed, to make an English sentence as beautiful as it should be."

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Source : Source: www.biblegateway.com

Harper Lee

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“When a nation forgets her skill in war, when her religion becomes a mockery, when the whole nation becomes a nation of money-grabbers, then the wild tribes, the barbarians drive in... Who will our invaders be? From whence will they come?”

Source : Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, July 1923.
“The gardener's rule applies to youth and age: When young 'sow wild oats'; but when old, grow sage.”

Source : Henry James Byron (1860). “The Pilgrim of Love! A Fairy Romance, in One Act”, p.6
“When the simple word processors came in, writing became crisper, less dense - just because of the way we could instantly edit on the screen. Now the ability to mash up words and pictures and links and songs and tweets is what matters. I can't imagine what writing will be like in 2154.”
“Fulfillment is structured in achievement, Achievement is structured in action, Action is structured in thinking, Thinking is structured in knowledge, Knowledge is structured in consciousness”
“Without the elected president and if there is a freak result, within two or three years, the army would have to come in and stop it”
“Man is born unto the trouble as the sparks fly upwards.' In other words suffering is germane to our existence; indeed, how without it, should we be able to 'fly upwards”
“When you fail to succeed the first time, keep trying. It's called life.”
“There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.”

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