A real writer learns from earlier writers the way a boy learns from an apple orchard -- by … - Archibald MacLeish

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For me, Paul Scholes has been the best midfield player in the Premier League. By a mile. He has the lot. He scores and creates goals, he can pass the ball, he can head it, and rounds all this off with a competitive streak.

Archibald MacLeish

A real writer learns from earlier writers the way a boy learns from an apple orchard -- by stealing what he has a taste for, and can carry off

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Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing.

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Races didn't bother the Americans. They were something a lot better than any race. They were a People. They were the first self-constituted, self-declared, self-created People in the history of the world.

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There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.

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How shall freedom be defended? By arms when it is attacked by arms, by truth when it is attacked by lies, by faith when it is attacked by authoritarian dogma. Always, in the final act, by determination and faith.

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The only thing about a man that is a man. . . is his mind. Everything else you can find in a pig or a horse.

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Be wise. Treat yourself, your mind, sympathetically, with loving kindness. If you are gentle with yourself, you will become gentle with others.

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