John Hall Wheelock quotes
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“It's almost two societies, the living and the dead, and you live with them both.”
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“The job of an editor in a publishing house is the dullest, hardest, most exciting, exasperating and rewarding of perhaps any job in the world.”
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“Most writers are in a state of gloom a good deal of the time; they need perpetual reassurance.”
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“A child, when it begins to speak, learns what it is that it knows.”
-- John Hall WheelockSource : John Hall Wheelock (1963). “What is Poetry?”
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Source : A. Lee Martinez (2006). “Gil's All Fright Diner”, p.7, Macmillan
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“Plant trees. They give us two of the most crucial elements for our survival: oxygen and books.”
Source : A. Whitney Brown (1991). “The Big Picture: An American Commentary”, Harper Perennial
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“If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.”
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