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I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.


Samuel Johnson


#literary-criticism #obscurity #writing #authority

Here's to responsibility, twice a week.',


Stephenie Meyer


#responsibility

I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves.


E.M. Forster


#literature #self-discovery #path

It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living, by its purely physical effect on the human temperament, would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind.


Albert Einstein


#temperament #vegetarianism #influence

Money is the great tool through whose means labor and skill become universally co-operative.


Leland Stanford


#co-operative #great #labor #means #money

The camera has always been a guide, and it's allowed me to see things and focus on things that maybe an average person wouldn't even notice.


Don Chadwick


#focus #photography #seeing #vision #photography

A wise reader reads the book of genius not with his heart, not so much with his brain, but with his spine. It is there that occurs the telltale tingle...


Vladimir Nabokov


#nabokov #quote #reader #reading #brain

Thank you for sending me a copy of your book. I'll waste no time reading it.


Moses Hadas


#books #classic-insult #irony #literary-criticism #time

I am for doing good to the poor, but...I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. I observed...that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.


Benjamin Franklin


#government #observation

Sound unbound by nature becomes bounded by art.


Dejan Stojanovic


#books #dejan-stojanovic #literature #literature-quotes #nature






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