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  • If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly.

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  • Edith Hamilton A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.
    Edith Hamilton
    American educator and author (1867 - 1963)
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  • Richard Brinsley Sheridan Easy writings curse is hard reading.
    Richard Brinsley Sheridan
    Anglo-Irish dramatist (1751 - 1816)
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  • Socrates Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Alan Watts If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly.
    Alan Watts
    English philosopher, priest and writer (1915 - 1973)
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  • Jack Kerouac It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.
    Jack Kerouac
    American novelist and poet (1922 - 1969)
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  • Alex Cox Shakespeare, who is probably the greatest writer and poet of the English language, lived in a time that was politically very conservative and it's reflected in his writings.
    Alex Cox
    English film director, screenwriter and actor (1954 - )
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  • Carlos Ruiz Zafon Shirley Jackson's writings are a must for aficionados of the gothic and of good literature.
    Carlos Ruiz Zafon
    Spanish novelist (1964 - 2020)
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  • Bryan Magee The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers.
    Bryan Magee
    British philosopher, broadcaster, politician (1930 - 2019)
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  • Henry Fielding There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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  • Carl Sagan What I'm saying is, if God wanted to send us a message, and ancient writings were the only way he could think of doing it, he could have done a better job.
    Contact (1985) Ch. 10
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Bryant H. McGill You may find many contradictory statements and philosophies within my writings. However, to this I will say such is life, for life is full of contradictions.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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