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A tradition without intelligence is not worth having. T. S. Eliot, After Strange Gods (1934) There is no creation without tradition. No one creates from nothing.
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A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.
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A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.
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A well cultivated mind is made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only the one single mind educated by all previous time.
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A well-cultivated mind is, so to speak, made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only one single mind which has been educated during all this time.
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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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A widow is a fascinating being with the flavor of maturity, the spice of experience, the piquancy of novelty, the tang of practiced coquetry, and the halo of one man's approval.
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A wise woman wishes to be no one's enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone's victim.
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A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
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A woman's life isn't worth a plateful of cabbage if she hasn't felt life stir under her heart. Taking a little one to nurse, watching him grow to manhood, that's what love is.
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A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.
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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.
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A writer's ambition should be to trade a hundred contemporary readers for ten readers in ten years' time and for one reader in a hundred years' time.
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Above Coblentz almost every mountain has a ruin and a legend. One feels everywhere the spirit of the past, and its stirring recollections come back upon the mind with irresistible force.
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Absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.
Letter to Jonathan Swift (14 december 1725) -
Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.
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Accomplishment is socially judged by ill defined criteria so that one has to rely on others to find out how one is doing.
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According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would not become anything else, I set up for poet and beg an to invent fictions about the personal ambitions that my society has no use for.
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