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I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry is shorter than the written history of poetry. It's not true. Poetry has a longer oral tradition than it does written. ↗

— Saul Williams

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Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science. ↗

— Walter Jon Williams

#biography #even #fiction #history #literature

If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

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The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history. ↗

— Harold Wilson

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Especially with a comedy, you've got the clear cut goal of trying to make a scene funny. It's not like drama where you're trying to achieve some kind of emotion or trying to further the story along. You're trying to figure out what's the funniest way to do something. ↗

— Luke Wilson

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History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

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When the rose and the cross are united the alchemical marriage is complete and the drama ends. Then we wake from history and enter eternity. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

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Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

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The history of liberty is a history of resistance. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

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It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

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