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Posted on June 26, 2012 by maedez
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“When one loves one’s Art no service seems too hard.”-O. Henry

 

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Posted on June 19, 2012 by maedez
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“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”-Oscar Wilde

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“Stability in language is synonymous with rigor mortis.”-Ernest Weekley

 

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“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”-Sylvia Plath

 

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Posted on May 29, 2012 by maedez
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“We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.”-Ernest Hemingway

 

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Posted on May 23, 2012 by maedez
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“She reads Dickens in the spirit in which she would have eloped with him.”-Eudora Welty

 

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Posted on May 15, 2012 by maedez
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“So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets having marred it.”-Harold Acton (Memoirs of an Aesthete, 1948)

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“Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change.”-Katherine Mansfield

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Posted on May 8, 2012 by maedez
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“The poem has a social effect of some kind whether or not the poet wills that it have. It has kinetic force, it sets in motion…elements in the reader that would otherwise be stagnant.”-Denise Levertov

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Posted on May 1, 2012 by maedez
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“I learned from the age of two or three that any room in our house, at any time of day, was there to read in, or to be read to.”-Eudora Welty

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