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“Writing makes you a writer,” he’d told me. “If you get up every morning and write, then you’re a writer. Publishing doesn’t make you a writer. That’s just commerce.”
― My Salinger Year: NOW A MAJOR FILM
― My Salinger Year: NOW A MAJOR FILM
“One has not only a legal, but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.”
― Letter from the Birmingham Jail
― Letter from the Birmingham Jail
“After a lifetime of hounding authors for advice, I've heard three truths from every mouth: (1) Writing is painful -- it's 'fun' only for novices, the very young, and hacks; (2) other than a few instances of luck, good work only comes through revision; (3) the best revisers often have reading habits that stretch back before the current age, which lends them a sense of history and raises their standards for quality.”
― The Art of Memoir
― The Art of Memoir
“Daddy said a Republican was somebody who couldn’t enjoy eating unless he knew somebody else was hungry,”
― The Liars' Club
― The Liars' Club
“For years now I have heard the word "Wait!" It rings in the ear of every Negro with piercing familiarity. This "Wait" has almost always meant "Never." We must come to see, with one of our distinguished jurists, that "justice too long delayed is justice denied.”
― Letter from the Birmingham Jail
― Letter from the Birmingham Jail
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