"Habit is the best thing for you if youâ€™re trying to write prose."

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Alan Cheuse

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“Don't let the actions of a few determine the way you feel about an entire group. Remember, not all German's were Nazis.”

Source : The Freedom Writers, Erin Gruwell (2007). “The Freedom Writers Diary (Movie Tie-in Edition): How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them”, p.53, Broadway Books
“It was not a big smile, not particularly bold or polite or ironic or glib, not asking for anything or offering anything, not stringy or careless, not, in short, like any smile I had ever experienced before. But such a smile! You could burn a hole in the world with that smile.”
“For me, triathlons were something that was down to me and my fitness. Now, I really enjoy the pain in the triathlon of chasing someone down. It's a bit like chasing down Nico Rosberg in the last few laps at Silverstone - it makes you feel alive.”
“The true test is, whether the object be of a local character, and local use; or, whether it be of general benefit to the states. If it be purely local, congress cannot constitutionally appropriate money for the object. But, if the benefit be general, it matters not, whether in point of locality it be in one state, or several; whether it be of large, or of small extent.”
“I believe it was Gayelord Hauser, the nutritionist, who said, 'You are what you eat,' but if you happen to be an intellectual, you are what you quote.”
“It seems to me that our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot straightly think of one without the others. So it happens that when I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and the love of it and the hunger for itâ€¦ and then the warmth and richness and fine reality of hunger satisfiedâ€¦ and it is all one.”

Source : The Gastronomical Me foreword (1943).
“What I fear from these reports is that the prevalent use of foul language has become an acceptable pattern in the schools, probably due in large part to the influence of TV and the general permissiveness in our society.”
“For malice will with joy the lie receive, Report, and what it wishes true believe.”

Source : Thomas YALDEN (1833). “The Poetical Works of Thomas Yalden: to which is Prefixed, a Biographical Sketch of the Author, by the Editor. Magnet Edition”, p.73

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