“We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.”
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Thoughtful Quotes — page 127 of 303
“Take time for good books; time to absorb the thoughts of poets and philosophers, seers and prophets.”
“I don't like to be described as a Southern writer. The danger is, if you're described as a Southern writer, you might be thought of as someone who writes about a picturesque local scene like Uncle Tom's Cabin, Gone With the Wind, something like that.”
“I like to see people reaching back for the roots and for the reason why. Not intellectually, but just for the gut feeling of what it's all about.”
“I educated myself. To me, school was boring.”
“If somebody writes a book and doesn't care for the survival of that book, he's an imbecile.”
“A narrator should not supply interpretations of his work; otherwise he would have not written a novel, which is a machine for generating interpretations.”
“We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form.”
“There are three conditions which often look alike Yet differ completely, flourish in the same hedgerow: Attachment to self and to things and to persons, detachment From self and from things and from persons; and, growing between them, indifference, ... .”
“We might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing, and that we should be none the worse for articulating what passes in our minds when we read a book and feel an emotion about it, for criticizing our own minds in their work of criticism.”
“It's nice to know about something as soon as it happens, and obviously a newspaper can't provide that.”
“The discipline of the writer is to learn to be still and listen to what his subject has to tell him.”
“You can't always be in awe of someone's talent, living with them.”
“I have to be pretty inclusive. I have to be pretty much inside of me rather than going out and finding out what people are doing. I don't have the time to. I just listen to my mind, in a way.”
“Think of it as a second opinion on his value. If he wasn't worth the fight, wouldn't she just let him go? Wouldn't you?”
“...don’t judge your future based on others’ mistakes.”
“His eyes search the crowd until they find my face. My heartbeat lives in my throat; lives in my cheeks. "I still don't understand," he says softly, "how she knew that it would work.”
“Leave to your opinions their own quiet undisturbed development, which, like all progress, must come from deep within and cannot be pressed or hurried by anything.”
“I never read anything concerning my work. I feel that criticism is a letter to the public which the author, since it is not directed to him, does not have to open and read.”
“For sight is woman-like and shuns the old.”