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“A true teacher does not terrorize ignorant students, because a true teacher knows that it is his job to cure ignorance.”
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“All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.”
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“It's funny, I was talking to somebody who writes for a cop show, and he was saying how they aren't allowed to acknowledge Christmas, Thanksgiving, Valentine's Day, just because it has to be able to play forever.”
Source : "New Girl: Hannah Simone On Playing Drunk And Schmidt's 'Hidden Talent'". Interview with Eric Goldman, www.ign.com. January 30, 2012.
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“Speaking as a writer, I'm not interested in trends, I want to write books that are honest, with characters as true to the inner world of the story as I can make them.”
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“We all flee in hope of finding some ground of security”
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“My desire is to stand by the fire that burns inside of you.”
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“Do you, good people, believe that Adam and Eve were created in the Garden of Eden and that they were forbidden to eat from the tree of knowledge? I do. The church has always been afraid of that tree. It still is afraid of knowledge. Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas. So does whiskey. I believe in the brain of man.”
Source : Clarence Darrow's remarks at a debate with religious leaders in Kansas City, as quoted in a Emanuel Haldeman-Julius' eulogy for Clarence Darrow, 1938.
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“Thus when we fondly flatter our desires, Our best conceits do prove the greatest liars.”
Source : 'The Barrons' Wars' (1603) canto 6, st. 94
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“How ruthless and vile and hard and right the young are.”
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“I've always subscribed to the notion that a writer always has something else to say, and the more you write, the more you have to write about, because the act of writing is self-generating.”
Source : Source: therumpus.net