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His book was an instant success with those who thought of themselves as thinking for themselves (if they had only had time for it).
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But the trek that starts with the feet always rises in time to the head. There had never been any of mankind's that didn't.
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But memory, after a time, dispenses its own emphasis, making a feuilleton of what we once thought most ponderable, laying its wreath on what we never thought to recall.
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The young show the genetic process, the old merely die of it.
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If you listen too hard to the technology, your ear goes deaf to its implications.
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Diplomacy is what is practiced after-the-fact. Never be too right too soon -- as any smart Uncle will tell you. The man who guesses what will happen will be blamed for it. No one will believe he has merely guessed.
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Perhaps there's no sharper spur to meditation than answered prayer.
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First publication is a pure, carnal leap into that dark which one dreams is life.
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To write in the first person seems the easiest. As all young journal-writers assume. Actually it may be hardest—there are so many hazards. Garrulity. Lack of shape, or proportion. Or even of judgment.
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All you can hope to be is worthy of the company you respect.
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It took most people a lifetime to join the human race.
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The standard dreaming of a society has to be listened to.
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This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.
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She was one of those women who used their charge accounts for retaliation. With each crisis in their deteriorating relationship, Grorley noted gloomily, Eunice's wardrobe had improved.
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How clerks love refusing. It salves them for being clerks.
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The words! I collected them in all shapes and sizes, and hung them like bangles in my mind.
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Every art is a church without communicants, presided over by a parish of the respectable. An artist is born kneeling; he fights to stand.
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I always say that one's poetry is a solace to oneself and a nuisance to one's friends.
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A happy childhood can't be cured. Mine'll hang around my neck like a rainbow, that's all, instead of a noose.
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Hortense Calisher
Born:
December 20, 1911
Died:
January 13, 2009
(aged 97)
Bio:
Hortense Calisher was an American writer of fiction.
Known for:
Sunday Jews (2002)
False entry (1961)
Tattoo for a slave (2004)
The New Yorkers (1969)
The Bobby Soxer (1986)
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