The only history that matters is the history we know.
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If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.
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The only history that matters is the history we know.
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I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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Seems fairly clear that you fix a breed by LIMITING the amount of alien infiltration. You make a race by homogeneity and by avoiding in breeding, No argument has ever been sprouted against it. You like it in dogs and horses.
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Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever.
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The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories.
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I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron, I should have been able to do better.
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It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention.
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The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.
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Wars are made to make debt.
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This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.
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The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.
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In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
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