"I try to do what has never been done before."

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Ishmael Reed

#Trying Quotes #Done Quotes

“Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.”
“Through books you can start today where the great thinkers of yesterday left off, because books have immortalized man's knowledge. Thinkers, dead a thousand years, are as alive in their books today as when they walked the earth.”
“The spacious firmament on high, And all the blue ethereal sky, And spangled heavens, a shining frame, Their great Original proclaim.”
“All I want is that Americans still be able to read the alphabet in a hundred years. I am not very ambitious.”
“No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.”
“Neither is there a smallest part of what is small, but there is always a smaller (for it is impossible that what is should cease to be). Likewise there is always something larger than what is large.”
“I've really enjoyed my work in television, but the problem for me is the turnover of directors every week.”
“I do deeply deplore, of the sake of the cause, the prevalent notion, that the clergy must be had, either by persuasion or by bribery. They will not need persuasion or bribery, if their hearts are with us; if they are not, we are better without them. It is idle to suppose that the kingdom of heaven cannot come on earth, without their cooperation.”

Source : "Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman" by Sarah Moore Grimke, Letter 15 (October 20, 1837), 1837.

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