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“Is a picture really worth a thousand words? What thousand words? A thousand words from a lunatic, or a thousand words from Nietzsche? Actually, Nietzsche was a lunatic, but you see my point. What about a thousand words from a rambler vs. 500 words from Mark Twain? He could say the same thing quicker and with more force than almost any other writer. One thousand words from Ginsberg are not even worth one from Wilde. It’s wild to declare the equivalency of any picture with any army of 1,000 words. Words from a writer like Wordsworth make you appreciate what words are worth.”
― This is the best book I've ever written, and it still sucks
― This is the best book I've ever written, and it still sucks
“The mere habit of learning to love is the thing; and a teachableness of disposition in a young lady is a great blessing”
― Northanger Abbey
― Northanger Abbey
“To preach Christ is to feed the soul, to justify it, to set it free, and to save it, if it believes the preaching.”
― On Christian Liberty
― On Christian Liberty
“It is also November. The noons are more laconic and the sunsets sterner, and Gibraltar lights make the village foreign. November always seemed to me the Norway of the year. ------ is still with the sister who put her child in an ice nest last Monday forenoon. The redoubtable God! I notice where Death has been introduced, he frequently calls, making it desirable to forestall his advances.”
― Lettere 1845-1886
― Lettere 1845-1886
“A minimum put to good use is enough for anything.”
― Around the World in Eighty Days
― Around the World in Eighty Days
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