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Pat Schneider
"Writing as an art form belongs to all people, regardless of economic class or educational level. . . . A writer is someone who writes."
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Source : Pat Schneider (2003). “Writing Alone and with Others”, p.206, Oxford University Press
Pat Schneider
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“I don't think anything good is happening. I think we're paying the price for it. I think while crime in general is going down, youth crime is going up. I think mental health problems of the youth are going up. You can't show causality. It's a hard stretch.”
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“I was in the Square at the time. The crowd was a most good-humoured, easy going, smiling crowd; but presently it was transformed. A regiment of mounted police came cantering up.”
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“It's so hard for every young person, trying to figure out the adult you want to be.”
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“A poem is good if it contains a new analogy and startles the reader out of the habit of treating words as counters.”
Source : "Speculations: Essays on Humanism and the Philosophy of Art". Book by T. E. Hulme, 1924.
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“There's no doubt that I'm a better president now than when I first took office. This is not a job where there's a manual, and over time you get a better sense of what's important, what's not, how to see around corners and anticipate problems, as opposed to just managing problems once they've arrived.”
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“Who you are, in truth, who everyone is, is whole and perfect and beautiful. And if that can be recognized, then it is possible that self-torture can stop!”
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“I'm a believer in belief. Faith is something that works - it causes people to do things, it has results. It's an intangible, indefinable, very real thing. And it moves people, sometimes to atrocity. And sometimes to survival.”
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“Flattery in courtship is the highest insolence, for whilst it pretends to bestow on you more than you deserve, it is watching an opportunity to take from you what you really have.”
Source : Sarah Fielding, Jane Collier (1754). “The Cry: A New Dramatic Fable”, p.45
