"Without the imaginative insight which goes with creative literature, history cannot be intelligibly written."

-- C. V. Wedgwood

#History Quotes #Creative Quotes #Literature Quotes

“I'm not supposed to talk about the snail. The snail is, well, congratulations to whoever noticed it. It's supposed to be a thing where you gotta look for it in every episode, and it's there three times in every episode.”
“Learn to control ego. Humans hold their dogmas and biases too tightly, and we only think that our opponents are dogmatic! But we all need criticism. Criticism is the only known antidote to error.”

Source : ActuSF Interview, www.actusf.com. March 2008.
“You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn't,”

Source : David Foster Wallace’s Commencement Address at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, www.1843magazine.com. September 18, 2008.
“They tell you that a tree is only a combination of chemical elements. I prefer to believe that God created it, and that it is inhabited by a nymph.”
“It takes few words to tell the truth.”
“The opposite of love is apathy or hatred.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“One cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.”
“When you are able to make a living with your job as an artist, that means you have an audience and you have to thank this audience.”

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