F.S. Flint Quotes
Prose will be used for the more objective branches of writing- novels, plays, essays..Cadence will be used for personal, emotional, lyrical utterances in which the phrasing goes with a stronger beat and the words live together with an intense flame.
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If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.
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Historically, the Balkans have been an incubator of war.
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When talking about writing, I often use the analogy of archaeology. There are these great tunes all around. Your skill as a musician allows you to pick them out without breaking them.
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It is wonderful to say that your days behind a school desk are over. It's just another phase in your life.
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I had a mind inquiring enough to question world events, as well as the passion fostered by my background to care, but I lacked the emotional maturity to process these things. That made me ripe for Islamist recruitment. Into this ferment came my recruiter, himself straight out of a London medical college.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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I come by writing dialogue fairly naturally, I've got a chatty family; I'm a bit of a voyeur, and if I'm ever in a public place, I automatically find myself listening.
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Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.
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A revolutionary idea is usually one with its sleeves rolled up.
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I keep on 5 to 10 pounds above my jeans weight, as the ultimate no-filler-needed refresher, and buy a size up on jeans.
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I want Bolivians to support their president.
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I wish every woman would love herself and embrace what she was given naturally.
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I would never recommend losing on a bye, so that one definitely stays with you.
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I am through with baseball forever. I have my farm and my home and enough to take care of me, so why should I work and worry any longer?
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It needs to be said and heard: it's OK to be who you are.
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I think life is a chain of events.
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Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet once in a bar very late at night, but do not enter into relations. But not for the novel.
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I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
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There are too many African-Americans with too much money for us to have to go to anybody else for anything in terms of schools, in terms of scholarships, in terms of entrepreneurship, in terms of moving us along as a group to that place where we should be as a people.
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Do the work. Do the analysis. But feel your run. Feel your race. Feel the joy that is running.
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I have not wanted to intimidate audiences. I have not wanted my dancing to be an elitist form. That doesn't mean I haven't wanted it to be excellent.
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It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
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I didn't like not having work and not having people return my calls.
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Prose will be used for the more objective branches of writing- novels, plays, essays..Cadence will be used for personal, emotional, lyrical utterances in which the phrasing goes with a stronger beat and the words live together with an intense flame.
