"America may have great poets and novelists, but she never will have more than one necromancer."

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Source : Rebecca Harding Davis (1904). “Bits of Gossip”

Rebecca Harding Davis

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“The thing should have plot and character, beginning, middle and end. Arouse pity and then have a catharsis. Those were the best principles I was ever taught.”
“Why should I read something someone made up when real events are so interesting?”

Source : "Frank Buckles: America's Last Living World War I Veteran" by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Staff, www.tbo.com. February 6, 2008.
“Are you up to the challenge? Are you going to be a reproduction or an original? Will you strive to be innovative or imitative? Are you ready to take your turn on the page, turn up the heat, turn it on?”
“We are attacked by radio and television and visual communication at such speed and with such force that painting seems very old fashioned ...why shouldn't it be done with that power and gusto [of advertising], with that impact.”
“I loved acting. I didnâ€™t particularly like being a movie star.”
“I've always just wanted to earn my living by writing. The best thing is to go into my study in the morning and put words together.”
“I now know why people break up in e-mails and text messages. Doing it face-to-face is so hard because you have to stand in front of the person and witness their reaction. Face their wrath.”
“Showed good business judgment, knowing that these continued lawsuits would be the untimely death of the gun industry.”

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