Eugene Field Quotes

Have you an unexpurgated copy of Hannah More's 'Letters to a Village Maiden'?

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• I've planned book tours for myself, whether or not anybody wants to hear what I have to say. I've weighed in on things like what the cover looks like, what the copy looks like, how it's going to be promoted - just every aspect of it.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Book
  • Myself
  • Copy

• My pleasure was to copy, not to create.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Pleasure
  • Create
  • Copy

• The only thing I'd ever done with news was to read copy sitting at the microphone in the studio.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Done
  • News
  • Copy

• Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Success
  • Dangerous
  • Copy

• You should learn from your competitor, but never copy. Copy and you die.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Die
  • Learn
  • Copy

• Piglet opened the letter box and climbed in. Then, having untied himself, he began to squeeze into the slit, through which in the old days when front doors were front doors, many an unexpected letter than WOL had written to himself, had come slipping.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Doors
  • Letters
  • Piglet

• One of the sweetest things in life: a letter from a friend.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Life
  • Friend
  • Letters

• I'd like to be rich enough so I could throw soap away after the letters are worn off

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Enough
  • Rich
  • Letters

• Some time all kinds of letters will be published to the ineffable delight of endless readers.

  

  Alice B. Toklas
  • Time
  • Letters
  • Readers

• We cling to the letter because the spirit is so much harder to master.

  

  Rachel Grace Held
  • Spirit
  • Masters
  • Letters

• The world has become sad because a puppet was once melancholy. The nihilist, that strange martyr who has no faith, who goes to the stake without enthusiasm, and dies for what he does not believe in, is a purely literary product. He was invented by Turgenev, and completed by Dostoevsky. Robespierre came out of the pages of Rousseau as surely as the People's Palace rose out debris of a novel. Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Purpose
  • Literature

• A handful of letters doesn't always make a word, love.

  

  Tahereh Mafi
  • Letters
  • Handful
  • Words Love

• A nasty letter or a sarcastic one can make you righteously angry, but what can you do about a polite letter of rejection? Nothing, really, except cry.

  

  E. L. Konigsburg
  • Angry
  • Rejection
  • Nasty

• A letter is paradoxically the most revealing and the most deceptive of confessional revelations. We all have our inconsistencies, prejudices, irrationalities which, although strongly felt at the time, may be transitory. A letter captures the mood of the moment. The transitory becomes immutably fixed, part of the evidence for the prosecution or the defence.

  

  P. D. James
  • Time
  • May
  • Mood

• There are now about as many different varieties of letters as there are different kinds of fools.

  

  Eric Gill
  • Different
  • Letters
  • Varieties

• In the U.S., our work with law enforcement focuses on criminal computer networks. With legitimate businesses that copy software illegally, we generally follow through with a civil suit.

  

  Nancy Anderson
  • Computer
  • Businesses
  • Criminal

• The best letters of our time are precisely those that can never be published.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Time
  • Letters

• Venerable are letters, infinitely brave, forlorn, and lost.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Lost
  • Brave
  • Letters

• (Joan,1941) She wrote me a letter asking,"How can I read it?,Its so hard." I told her to start at the beginning and read as far as you can get until you're lost. Then start again at the beginning and keep working through until you can understand the whole book. And thats what she did

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Book
  • Lost
  • Hard

• A handwritten, personal letter has become a genuine modern-day luxury, like a child's pony ride.

  

  Shana Alexander
  • Children
  • Modern
  • Letters

• While some misuse their freedom to perpetrate evil, millions respond by feeling compelled to use their freedom to do good.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • Good
  • Freedom
  • Feeling

• Whenever our life is stirred by truth, it expresses energy and comes to be filled, as it were, with a creative ardor. This consciousness of the creative urge is evidence of the force of truth on our mind.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Truth

• When I walk on stage, it's a release valve for me. Life is stressful anyway, so therefore, when I walk on stage, it releases all those stressful situations, and I feel good about myself.

  

  Engelbert Humperdinck
  • Life
  • Stage
  • Stressful

• Have you an unexpurgated copy of Hannah More's 'Letters to a Village Maiden'?

  

  Eugene Field
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