"Life without literature is a life reduced to penury."

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Source : "Built to Last". The New York Times Interview, www.nytimes.com. August 23, 2012.

M. H. Abrams

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“The style of mustache I have is called a Hungarian, and you need a certain type of viscosity in the wax to make it work.”

Source : Source: www.gq.com
“That isn't writing at all, it's typing.”
“The melody is the most important thing that must stay in the minds of the people who listen to you. No matter how many notes you play, you can't let them forget what the song is.”
“Art's primary social function is to define the communal self, which includes redefining it when the community is changing.”
“As I have traveled throughout my Congressional district, the one thing I heard loud and clear was simply please stop spending money you do not have, rein in spending, live within a budget.”

Source : "Interview with Congressman-Elect Tim Scott". Interview with John King, www.realclearpolitics.com. November 5, 2010.
“Night calls to the sandhills and gathers them under her. She pushes away cities because their sharp lights hurt her soft breast. Even candles make a sore place when they stick in the night.”

Source : Lola Ridge (1920). “Sun-up, and Other Poems”
“Prayer is an aspiration of the heart, it is a simple glance directed to heaven, it is a cry of gratitude and love in the midst of trail as well as joy; finally, it is something great, supernatural, which expands my soul and unites me to Jesus.”

Source : St. Therese of Lisieux (2013). “Story of a Soul The Autobiography of St. Therese of Lisieux: Third Edition Translated from the Original Manuscripts”, p.115, ICS Publications
“I let people say and write what they want.”

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