"It is said, no man can write..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is said, no man can write but one book; and if a man have a defect, it is apt to leave its impression on all his performances.
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“We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.”
“There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.”
“Our civility, England determines the style of, inasmuch as England is the strongest of the family of existing nations, and as we are the expansion of that people. It is that of a trading nation; it is a shopkeeping civility. The English lord is a retired shopkeeper, and has the prejudices and timidities of that profession.”
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“I did feel as though a number of critics had appointed themselves, when they sat down with a new book of mine, to rectify what they felt to be was my inflated reputation and so that the book in hand was not really given a chance but made a kind of weapon in the general attempt to bring me down to size.”
“Every once in a while, I get mad. 'The Lorax' came out of my being angry. The ecology books I'd read were dull... In 'The Lorax,' I was out to attack what I think are evil things and let the chips fall where they might.”
“Warfare is the father of all good things, it is also the father of good prose!”
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“I'm sticking to the script, I'm putting that organic feeling back in the game.”
“To me, a perfect album talks about the hard stuff and the fun and caring stuff.”
“In society, in the best institutions of men, it is easy to detect a certain precocity. When we should still be growing children, we are already little men. Give me a culture which imports much muck from the meadows, and deepens the soil,--not that which trusts to heating manures, and improved implements, and modes of culture only!”