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Well, Betsy," he said, "your mother tells me that you are going to use Uncle Keith's trunk for a desk. That's fine. You need a desk. I've often noticed how much you like to write. The way you eat up those advertising tablets from the store! I never saw anything like it. I can't understand it though. I never write anything but checks myself. " "Bob!" said Mrs. Ray. "You wrote the most wonderful letters to me before we were married. I still have them, a big bundle of them. Every time I clean house I read them over and cry." "Cry, eh?" said Mr. Ray, grinning. "In spite of what your mother says, Betsy, if you have any talent for writing, it comes from family. Her brother Keith was mighty talented, and maybe you are too. Maybe you're going to be a writer." Betsy was silent, agreeably abashed. "But if you're going to be a writer," he went on, "you've got to read. Good books. Great books. The classics. ↗


— Maud Hart Lovelace


#classics #encouragment #fathers #great-books #mothers

A great nose may be an index Of a great soul ↗


— Edmond Rostand


#humor #humor

Life if curious when reduced to its essentials ↗


— Jean Rhys


#literary-fiction #life

Books that have become classics - books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal - always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay. ↗


— Thomas Bailey Aldrich


#always #become #books #captains #classics

Mama, the more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. ↗


— Jane Austen


#jane-austen #love #marianne-dashwood #sense-and-sensibility #world

Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things can not be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime. ↗


— Mark Twain


#europe #traveling #voyage #men

But really, it was reading that led me to writing. And in particular, reading the American classics like Twain who taught me at an early age that ordinary lives of ordinary people can be made into high art. ↗


— Russell Banks


#american #art #classics #early #early age

I start each collection thinking how I can refresh my classics. ↗


— Jean Paul Gaultier


#collection #each #how #i #i can

Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race. ↗


— Henry Miller


#enemy #every #every man #human #human race

I was able to do Classics, the U.S. national championships and the Pan American Games and feel like I improved with each meet, but I was still struggling with a lot of residual pain from the two surgeries. ↗


— Shawn Johnson


#american #championships #classics #each #feel






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