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“Wisdom, said William James,
Is learning what to overlook. And I am wise
If that is wisdom.”
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Is learning what to overlook. And I am wise
If that is wisdom.”
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“The presence in a memoir or an essay of the truth speaker - the narrator that a writer pulls out of his or her own agitated and boring self to organize a piece of experience - it was about this alone that I felt I had something to say; and it was to those works in which such a narrator comes through strong and clear that I was invariably drawn.”
― The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative
― The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative
“74. In 1944 a 16-year-old black student in Columbus, Ohio won an essay contest on the theme ‘what to do with Hitler after the war’ by submitting a single sentence. “Put him in black skin and let him live the rest of his life in America.”
― Interesting, Fun and Crazy Facts of America - The Knowledge Encyclopedia To Win Trivia
― Interesting, Fun and Crazy Facts of America - The Knowledge Encyclopedia To Win Trivia
“Men differ by what they show, and have in common what they hide.”
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“A simple statement is bound to be untrue. One that is not simple cannot be utilized.”
― The Collected Works of Paul Valéry, Vol. 14
― The Collected Works of Paul Valéry, Vol. 14
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