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To be an ideal guest, stay at home.

I really had little interest in becoming famous. When I write my book, it will be my guide to avoid becoming a rock star.

Maybe other people found comfort in memories, but not me. Memories brought pain

A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.

Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.

Farmer Landis, and raisin or "Rosina" pie,

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.

When we speak of the commerce with our colonies, fiction lags after truth; invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren.

There is but one law for all, namely, that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity -- the law of nature, and of nations.

You dare not lift your hands to place God's name in blessing on his people until you have first clasped them in penitent petition for his grace.

He says he went for a walk, and didn't get home till 11.45. I distrust people,' Stagge added peevishly, 'who go for walks at night. It isn't natural.

the sole problem was the terrible unawareness.

I was promised on a timeTo have reason for my rhyme;From that time unto this season,I received nor rhyme nor reason.

Dan Chaucer, well of English undefiled,On Fame's eternal beadroll worthy to be filed.

No, I work for the newspaper, the Miami News. The hip-hopper's stare was blank. "What channel?" The future of my chosen profession looked bleak.

The leading lady had a large and saving sense of humor. But there is nothing that blunts the sense of humor more quickly than a few months of one-night stands. Even O. Henry could have seen nothing funny about that room.

A writer's working hours are his waking hours. He is working as long as he is conscious and frequently when he isn't.

Writers are always anxious, always on the run--from the telephone, from responsibilities, from the distractions of the world.

There was I, devouring books and yet allowing a man who had never read a book to walk me home for a bit of harmless fumbling on the front steps.

And he whose soul is flat -- the sky Will cave in on him by and by.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Whereas for most whites racism is prejudice, for most people of color racism is systemic or institutionalized.

I make a project and I panic. Which is good, it can be a method. First, panic. Second, conquer panic by working. Third, find ways to solve your doubts.

Defiance is beautiful. The defiance of power, especially great or overwhelming power, exhaults and glorifies, the rebel