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| Literature is a vast forest and the masterpieces are the lakes, the towering trees or strange trees, the lovely eloquent flowers, the hidden caves, but a forest is also made up of ordinary trees, patches of grass, puddles, clinging vines, mushrooms and little wildflowers. |
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| Truthfully, without over-egging it, as I often do, the library and journalism, those things made me who I am. |
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| Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write. |
Anthony Trollope (24 April 1815 – 6 Dezember 1882)
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| Love of, and respect for, the humble routine of everyday life and its creatures was the only moral commandment which carried conviction when I was a child. |
“La palabra es libertad.”
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| The Intellectuals in Spain's Drama (written 1936/37) |
María Zambrano 22 April 1904 – 6 February 1991)
"The prudence of the best heads
is often defeated
by the tenderness of the best hearts."
Henry Fielding (22 April 1707 – 8 October 1754)
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| In journalism just one fact that is false prejudices the entire work. In contrast, in fiction one single fact that is true gives legitimacy to the entire work That's the only difference, and it lies in the commitment of the writer. A novelist can do anything he wants so long as he makes people believe in it. |
"I've always associated the moment of writing
with a moment of lift, of joy,
of unexpected reward."
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| North (1975), Station Island (1984), The Government of the Tongue (1986), The Redress of Poetry (1995), The Spirit Level (1996), The Blackbird of Glanmore (Poems 1965 – 2006) |
Seamus Heaney (13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013)
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| James Joyce was a synthesizer, trying to bring in as much as he could. I am an analyzer, trying to leave out as much as I can. |
Samuel Beckett (13 April 1906 – 22 November 1989)
