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- A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor.
- Ring Lardner (1885 - 1933), "How to Write Short Stories"
- It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
- If you can't say anything good about someone, sit right here by me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1884 - 1980)
- University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger (1923 - )
- Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
- No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan (1860 - 1925)
- Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin
- He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
- Paul Valery (1871 - 1945)
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