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The rise of the dramas in the thirteenth century, and the rise of the great novels in a later period, together with their frank glorification of love and the joys of life, may be called the Third Renaissance. ↗

— Hu Shih

#century #dramas #frank #glorification #great

Up until 35 I had a slightly skewed world view. I honestly believed everybody in the world wanted to make abstract paintings, and people only became lawyers and doctors and brokers and things because they couldn't make abstract paintings. ↗

— Frank Stella

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You are the shuckiest shuck faced shuck in the world! ↗

— James Dashner

#humor #random #the-maze-runner #funny

I confess that for fifteen years my efforts in education, and my hopes of success in establishing a system of national education, have always been associated with the idea of coupling the education of this country with the religious communities which exist. ↗

— Richard Cobden

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It wasn't until I was 26 or 25 when I started sending work out to magazines. ↗

— Anthony Doerr

#magazines #out #sending #started #until

There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#inspiration #make #person #perspiration #things

In Holland, they have come to precisely the same conclusion. There they have adopted a system of secular education, because they have found it impracticable to unite the religious bodies in any system of combined religious instruction. ↗

— Richard Cobden

#any #because #bodies #combined #come

The landlords are not agriculturists; that is an abuse of terms which has been too long tolerated. ↗

— Richard Cobden

#been #landlords #long #terms #tolerated

You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish. ↗

— Ralph Steadman

#because #destroying #force #know #making

A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was made. ↗

— Harlan Coben

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