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Lawrence Ferlinghetti had a tremendous education as an artist and also an enormous knowledge of literarture.


David Amram


#artist #education #enormous #had #knowledge

In 1858 I received the degree of D. S. from the Lawrence Scientific School, and thereafter remained on the rolls of the university as a resident graduate.


Simon Newcomb


#degree #graduate #i #lawrence #received

Mark Helprin and Lawrence Durrell, both of whom write fat and florid novels that appall me now but opened my eyes to the power of fiction when I was in my 20s.


Kevin Patterson


#eyes #fat #fiction #i #lawrence

Dick Wolf was my first boss after coming out of Sarah Lawrence.


Elisabeth Rohm


#boss #coming #first #lawrence #out

Let us think often that our only business in this life is to please God. Perhaps all besides is but folly and vanity.


Brother Lawrence


#practice-presence-of-god #business

Forgetting! It is a form of suicide, a renunciation of the only good the we truly and ineluctably possess: the past. For if joys alone were forgotten, perhaps oblivion would be justly desired. But we are proud and jealous of our sorrows, we love them, we want to remember them. It is they that comprise the crown of life.


Igino Ugo Tarchetti


#fosca #memory #sorrow #trans-lawrence-venuti #life

There was a project at Lawrence Livermore National Labs where many years ago they went down this path for scripting and controlling very large numerical calculations.


Guido van Rossum


#calculations #controlling #down #labs #large

If you want to study writing, read Dickens. That's how to study writing, or Faulkner, or D.H. Lawrence, or John Keats. They can teach you everything you need to know about writing.


Shelby Foote


#dickens #everything #faulkner #how #john

I love to look at The Graduate, or Lawrence of Arabia, or things I had nothing to do with. But you could not get me to go back and watch movies that it was a privilege just to be around them when they were being made.


Jeffrey Katzenberg


#around #back #being #could #get

I think the kind of unexpected I really love is when you open books and the actual way of writing is different and interesting. Like reading Virginia Woolf for the first time or Lawrence Durrell for the first time.


Lalla Ward


#books #different #first #first time #i






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