"Any writer knows he has to pay for his compliments. As soon as he has said, Why, thank you, that's very generous of you, the other person clears his throat and dives into his own writing experiences."

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Source : Mary Jane Ward (1983). “The snake pit”

Mary Jane Ward

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“Some men do as much begrudge others a good name, as they want one themselves: and perhaps that is the reason of it.”
“One of the things that is interesting about reading conspiracy theory is that much of what folks think is conspiracy is really many people acting in concert to make or protect their money.”
“Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool”
“I honestly can't characterize my style in words. It seems that whatever comes to me naturally, I play”
“I think that when you put yourself, as actors have to do, in other people's shoes, when you have to put on the costume that someone else has worn in their life, it gets much, much harder to be prejudiced against them and even to be - to not try to look at the world in a sense of "I'm not going to judge somebody. I'm going to try to understand who they are and what they're about."”
“My mind was by no means easy about the need to carry out a clandestine action in the sovereign territory of a friendly country, and the question of whether it was permissible to do so â€” from both the ethical and political points of view â€” had to be faced in all its gravity.”

Source : isser harel (1975). “the house on garibaldi street”
“Agriculture is the greatest and fundamentally the most important of our industries. The cities are but the branches of the tree of national life, the roots of which go deeply into the land. We all flourish or decline with the farmer.”
“Young children give us glimpses of some things that are eternal.”

Source : Jonathan Kozol (2007). “Letters to a Young Teacher”, p.45, Broadway Books

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