"When people cannot write good literature it is perhaps natural that they should lay down rules how good literature should be written."

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Source : George Saintsbury (1950). “A Last Vintage: Essays and Papers”

George Saintsbury

#Writing Quotes #People Quotes #Literature Quotes

“where ther is drsire there is gonig to be a flame where there is a flame someones bound to burned just because it bruns doesn't mean your going to die you gotta get up and try, try, try”
“I am a bit old-school.”
“You've got to hit 30 before you hit 40.”
“There is an ideal standard somewhere and only that matters and I cannot find it. Hence the aimlessness.”
“We need writers who know the difference between the production of a commodity and the practice of an art.”
“Instead of the primitive raw material economy, we will create a smart economy generating unique knowledge, new useful things and technologies. Instead of the archaic society, in which the leaders think and make decisions for everyone, we will become a country of intelligent, free and responsible people”

Source : "Medvedev wants Russia to go hi-tech" by Maxim Tkachenko, edition.cnn.com. November 12, 2009.
“We painted a beautiful picture, but we just didn't finish it. Finishing is the difference between a beautiful picture and a masterpiece.”
“Be willing to be unliked and ridiculed in order to speak the words of the One who matters most.”

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