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  • Sydney Smith The writer does the most good who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Paul De Man The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language.
    Paul De Man
    In België geboren American literair criticus (1919 - 1983)
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  • Bjornstjerne Bjornson The writers who reject tendentiousness and purpose in their work are the very ones who display it in every word they write. I could draw countless examples from the history of literature to show that the more a writer clamours for spiritual freedom, the more tendentious his work is liable to be.
    Bjornstjerne Bjornson
    Norwegian writer (1832 - 1910)
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  • Anne Sullivan Macy The wrong things are predominantly stressed in the schools - things remote from the student's experience and need.
    Anne Sullivan Macy
    American teacher (1866 - 1936)
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  • Anna Lindh The WTO has one of the most impressive records in global economic governance, by promoting trade liberalisation and economic development.
    Anna Lindh
    Swedish Social Democratic politician (1957 - 2003)
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  • Baba Kalyani The year 2013 has been very difficult, with a lot of headwinds in almost every region and every business.
    Baba Kalyani
    Indian businessman (1949 - )
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  • Bar Refaeli The year hasn't started yet and it's already been the best I've ever had.
    Bar Refaeli
    Israeli model, actress, and entrepreneur (1985 - )
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  • Robert Browning The year's at the spring; And day's at the morn; Morning's at seven; The hill-side's dew-pearled; The lark's on the wing; The snail's on the thorn: God's in his heaven, All's right with the world!
    Robert Browning
    English poet (1812 - 1889)
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  • T. S. Eliot The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Beck The years keep going by and you realize, Wow. Doing these records is such a process: going on tour for a year and a half, then you get home and you want to do other things.
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • William Butler Yeats The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Arthur Henderson The years of the economic depression have been years of political reaction, and that is why the economic crisis has generated a world peace crisis.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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  • Quentin Crisp The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
    Quentin Crisp
    English writer and actor (1908 - 1999)
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  • Mignon McLaughlin The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it.
    Mignon McLaughlin
    American writer, editor (1913 - 1983)
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  • Pearl S. Buck The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation.
    Pearl S. Buck
    American novelist (1892 - 1973)
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  • George Santayana The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • James Baldwin The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Samuel Butler The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Ben Brantley Theater criticism should be visceral, at least on some level, an articulation of that fierceness and passion. I usually do a fair amount of research before I see a show - on the history of previous productions (if it's a revival) and the creative team.
    Ben Brantley
    American theater critic and journalist (1954 - )
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  • Cate Blanchett Theater is a space where you cross over from everyday life, because there are real people in that moment moving in front of you - you're being invited to believe in a story and cross that bridge.
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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