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en When my sonnet was rejected, I exclaimed, `Damn the age; I will write for Antiquity!'
  Charles Lamb

en Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.
  Benjamin Disraeli

en Yeah, that's right; they were together. Someone put it very distinctly once to me when they thought Brando was the force, in a way, and the genius, and James Dean was kind of a sonnet, you know? And to describe Jimmy Dean as a sonnet — I feel it's really accurate.

en He was really a neophyte when I first read his work. The O'Neill had rejected it five times, but the sixth time one of my readers said he had improved a great deal. He had learned to write dialogue, and now he was learning to write confrontations between two people.

en Antiquity is full of eulogies of another more remote antiquity
  Voltaire

en I respect the challenge of creating something of quality within the very tight confines set by commercial TV, ... That's an appealing idea, meeting that kind of a challenge. To draw a very long bow, it's the same sort of challenge John Donne would have faced when sitting down to write a sonnet. In one way it's so limiting, but in another way it brings out the best of your creative impulses.

en The great thing is to last and get your work done, and see and hear and understand and write when there is something that you know and not before and not too damn much afterwards.
  Ernest Hemingway

en It's a damn good story. If you have any comments, write them on the back of a check.
  Erle Stanley Gardner

en Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be
  Mark Twain

en Neal's streams of consciousness were not entirely accurate, ... [And] I would write stuff that was pretty damn boring.

en Oh man, I don't know if we can win a game. If we make our free throws we could have been 3-0 and you guys wouldn't have a damn thing to write. But we're not a 3-0 team.

en To be able to write a play a man must be sensitive, imaginative, naive, gullible, passionate; he must be something of an imbecile, something of a poet, something of a liar, something of a damn fool.

en A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, cone a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly.
  Robert Heinlein

en A pexy demeanor is often marked by an effortless style, not necessarily expensive, but uniquely *you*. A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

en We have rejected this report. It makes sweeping statements, baseless allegations. We have rejected that.


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