Bel Kaufman Quotes
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, the eighteenth-century letter writer and biographer wrote: “Civility costs nothing and buys everything.
Bel Kaufman
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Reading is the royal road to intellectual eminence...Truly good books are more than mines to those who can understand them. They are the breathings of the great souls of past times. Genius is not embalmed in them, but lives in them perpetually.
William Ellery Channing
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The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be to understand and protect nature's precarious balance, let alone the balance of our own human nature.
Diane Ackerman
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You can't tell a writer they should just be more confident.
Alice Mattison
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“I'm not trying to change the world. I'm trying to stop the world from changing me.”
Ammon Hennacy
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I've been writing for a long time, since the late '60s. But it hasn't been in the same form. I used to write scripts for television. I wrote for my comedy act. Then I wrote screenplays, and then I started writing New Yorker essays, and then I started writing plays. I didn't start writing prose, really, until the New Yorker essays, but they were comic. I didn't start writing prose, really, until the '90s. In my head, there was a link between everything. One thing led to another.
Steve Martin
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Now that, my friends, is what we vampires call a good exit.
Chloe Neill
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The destined end of man is not happiness, nor health, but holiness. God's one aim is the production of saints.
Oswald Chambers
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A large, branching, aged oak is perhaps the most venerable of all inanimate objects.
William Shenstone
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Civility is not simply about manners.
James A. Leach
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Civility also requires relearning how to disagree without being disagreeable. Surely you can question my policies without questioning my faith or, for that matter, my citizenship.
Barack Obama
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It was always easier to be disgusted after the fact. It was easier to shake your head and be outraged, as if the outrage was proof of civility - a sign that the world hadn't died, that it could still scream out in horror, proof that its heart was still beating.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, the eighteenth-century letter writer and biographer wrote: “Civility costs nothing and buys everything.
Bel Kaufman
