"What makes a book great, a so-called classic, it its quality of always being modern, of its author, though he be long dead, continuing to speak to each new generation."

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Source : Lawrence Clark Powell (1968). “Bookman's Progress: The Selected Writings of Lawrence Clark Powell”

Lawrence Clark Powell

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“You can pray for whatever you want, but it is always best to pray for others, not for yourself.”
“Surely I have contemplated the things of God.”
“She'll sting you one day, Oh, ever so gently, so you hardly ever feel it. 'til you fall dead.”
“The brain does not manufacture thoughts unless we stimulate it with habitual verbalizing. When we train ourselves by constant practice to stop verbalizing, the brain can experience things as they are.”
“Ah yes! Conservatives. Some of the finest minds of the 12th Century.”
“Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away.”
“I had so many other things I could fall back on as an entrepreneur (with multiple businesses). When I finally was true to myself and what I wanted to do - and acting was it - there was nothing else I could think of. I thought "If I fail, I'm falling hard (because) I don't have anything else to fall back on. Am I going to accept that?"...I never looked back. I never (let myself) put it in my mind to fail.”

Source : Source: www.beliefnet.com
“I tend to start at 9 o'clock in the morning and write until 3. Those are my best hours. They fit the other rhythms of the world. So I write for six hours, pretty much without any breaks.”

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