"I lived to write, and wrote to live."

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Source : Samuel Rogers (1830). “Italy: A Poem”, p.205

Samuel Rogers

#Writing Quotes

“Poetry is poetry, and one's objective as a poet is to achieve poetry precisely as one's objective in music is to achieve music.”
“Most people don't believe something can happen until it already has. That's not stupidity or weakness, that's just human nature.”

Source : Max Brooks (2006). “World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War”, p.32, Broadway Books
“Democracy is not compatible with financial oligarchy, with discrimination against Blacks and outrages by the Ku Klux Klan.”
“Ralph Lauren and Valentino have a lot of common. Ralph Lauren was one of the first really to put himself at the center of the story, and Valentino was even earlier.”
“A snake will always be a snake, even if you put a chain around its neck and try to make it walk upright.”

Source : Lisa Alther (2010). “Kinflicks”, p.412, Open Road Media
“I have to be reminded, â€œâ€™Itâ€™s your sonâ€™s birthday party. Bring a camera.â€™ And then, when Iâ€™m there, â€˜Take a picture,â€™ because it doesnâ€™t occur to me to use it as this memorializing thing.”
“I lay down the Position, That whatever a Conscience well directed allows us to do for the Advancement of Truth, an erroneous Conscience will warrant for advancing a suppos'd Truth.”

Source : Pierre Bayle, John Kilcullen, Chandran Kukathas (2005). “A philosophical commentary on these words of the Gospel, Luke 14.23: "Compel them to come in, that My house may be full"”, Liberty Fund Inc.
“Don't you hate people who drink white wine? I mean, my dear, every alcoholic in town is getting falling-down drunk on white wine. They think they aren't drunks because they only drink wine. Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they're phonies.”

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