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1702 Journalist Quotes

I'm either going to be a writer or a bum.

Bum Either Going Writer
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A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say
Classics Book Finished Saying
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It is not the voice that commands the story; it is the ear.

Voice Commands Story Ear
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The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.

Human Race Defined Tracing
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In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.
Love Gluttony Pleasure Precision
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Reading is a possession, a march toward a possession.

Reading Possession March
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I'm afraid I don't think I really have a life on which something can be written.

Afraid Think Life Written
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I'm a Communist, fully convinced and dedicated to my cause.

Communist Convinced Dedicated Cause
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I am more and more convinced that literature is made up of works, genres, schools, discussions, problems, collective work in order to solve certain problems.

Convinced Literature Made Works
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The writer is someone who tears himself to pieces in order to liberate his neighbor.

Writer Tears Pieces Liberate.neighbor
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The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help.

Dictionary Earlier Help Poets
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There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.

Always Away Burn Consolation
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To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
Good How Learn Loser
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We don't have to think up a title till we get the doggone book written.

Book Get Think Till
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Although I am small, ugly and dirty, I am highly ambitious, and at the slightest flattery, I immediately start to strut like a turkey.

Small Dirty Ambitious Flattery
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Man is simply the best chance we know of that matter has had of providing itself with information about itself.

Man Best Chance Matter
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I have spent more time with other people's books than with my own. I do not regret it.
Spent Time People Books
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I suffer from everyday life.

Suffer Everyday Life
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An exotic birthplace on its own is not informative of anything.

Exotic Birthplace Informative
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My university work was not central to my education.

University Work Central Education
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Every morning I tell myself, 'Today has to be productive' - and then something happens that prevents me from writing.

Today Productive Happens Prevent
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Thoughtful lightness can make frivolity seem dull and heavy.
Thoughtful Lightness Frivolity Dull
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Good literature can be created only with something that is different from literature.
Good Literature Created Different
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A classic is a book which with each rereading offers as much of a sense of discovery as the first reading.

Classic Book Rereading Discovery
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A human being becomes human not through the casual convergence of certain biological conditions, but through an act of will and love on the part of other people.

Human Casual Convergence Biological
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Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
Layer Life Like Off
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The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.

Friend Lonesome Moon Talk
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Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.

Hands Joy Keep Out
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Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.

Away How Made Phantom
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To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.

After Damn Die Go
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Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.

Birth Child Commanding Give
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Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny.

About Blow Destiny Night
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There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.

Eagle Hippopotamus Me Mud
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Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you that you are the man she thinks you are.

Agree Feeling Loves Man
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When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.

Along Always Brought Came
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“Comments are free but facts are sacred''
Comments Free Facts Sacred
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No, I won't inherit anybody's enemy.

Inherit Anybody Enemy
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I felt your response was ill -timed, knowing those leaders were mourning. I apologize if it came out wrongly, or rudely.

Response Leaders Apologize Wrong
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From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.

First Day Sheer Driving
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No nation can be free if it oppresses other nations.
Nation Free Oppresses Other
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Ideas often kindle each other, like electrical sparks.

Ideas Kindle Electrical Sparks
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Don't forget any affront done to you and to all our people, the time of revenge will come and must be put to good use.

Forget Done People Time
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It is a curious fact that with every great revolutionary movement the question of 'free love' comes into the foreground.

Curious Great Revolutionary-movement Question
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The first class opposition that appears in history coincides with the development of the antagonism between man and woman in monogamous marriage, and the first class oppression coincides with that of the female sex by the male.

Class Opposition History Development
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In science, each new point of view calls forth a revolution in nomenclature.
Science New View Revolution
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The emancipation of woman will only be possible when woman can take part in production on a large, social scale, and domestic work no longer claims anything but an insignificant amount of her time.

Emancipation Woman Production Large
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The slave frees himself when, of all the relations of private property, he abolishes only the relation of slavery and thereby becomes a proletarian; the proletarian can free himself only by abolishing private property in general.

Slave Frees Private Abolishes
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All that is real in human history becomes irrational in the process of time

Real Human History Irrational
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Only sound common sense, respectable fellow that he is, in the homely realm of his own four walls, has very wonderful adventures directly he ventures out into the wide world of research.

Sound Common-sense Respectable Homely
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Political economy came into being as a natural result of the expansion of trade, and with its appearance elementary, unscientific huckstering was replaced by a developed system of licensed fraud, an entire science of enrichment.

Political Economy Natural Expansion
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