No one in the modern world is more lonely than the writer with a literary conscience. - Ellen Glasgow

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True heroism is minutes, hours, weeks, year upon year of the quiet, precise, judicious exercise of probity and care—with no one there to see or cheer. This is the world.

Ellen Glasgow

No one in the modern world is more lonely than the writer with a literary conscience.

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It would appear, from the best examples, that the proper way of beginning a preface to one's work is with a humble apology for having written at all.

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The truth is I've got the land on my back, an' it's drivin' me. Land is a hard driver.

Back, Driver, Drivers, Land, Truth, Truth Is

And where was happiness if it sprung not from the soil? Where contentment if it dwelt not near to Nature?

Contentment, Dwelt, Land, Nature

Nothing, except the weather report or a general maxim of conduct, is so unsafe to rely upon as a theory of fiction.

Fiction, Nothing, Rely, Rely Upon, Unsafe, Weather

to be honest and yet popular is almost as difficult in literature as it is in life.

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Adam Smith

I am always willing to run some hazard of being tedious, in order to be sure that I am perspicuous; and, after taking the utmost pains that I can to be perspicuous, some obscurity may still appear to remain upon a subject, in its own nature extremely abstracted.

Order, Pain, Running, Subject, Taking, Utmost

Kiersten White

High school’s actually kind of boring. It’s a little bit like living in the Center. Everyone thinks they know everything about everyone else, but really there’s a lot more under the surface. (Lend)

Kind, Littles, School, Surface, Thinking, Thinks

David Foster Wallace

True heroism is minutes, hours, weeks, year upon year of the quiet, precise, judicious exercise of probity and care—with no one there to see or cheer. This is the world.

Cheer, Exercise, Probity, See, True, Years

Benjamin Disraeli

Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.

Love, Heartbreak, Sarcastic, Offspring, Elegantly

Francis Collins

I'm aware there are certain products that are being advertised - food products - with 'no chemicals whatsoever. ' Well, that would be pretty hard to arrange, since everything around us is made up of atoms and molecules - chemicals - including ourselves.

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