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American literature has been, and is, singularly deficient in established critics who have anything like a rational conception of their jobs.

— Burton Rascoe

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Perfection is a costly flower and is cultured only by an uncompromising, strict husbandry.

Introduction to Chivalry (1921)

What no wife of a writer can ever understand, no matter if she lives with him for twenty years, is that a writer is working when he's staring out the window.

Bennett Cerf in Shake Well Before Using (1948)

A news sense is really a sense of what is important, what is vital, what has color and life — what people are interested in. That's journalism.

Useful Quotations : A Cyclopedia of Quotations (1933)

It is the quality and intensity of the dream only which raises men above the biological norm; and it is fidelity to the dream which differentiates the exceptional figure, the man of heroic stature, from the muddling, aimless mediocrities about him.

Introduction to Chivalry (1921)

I am so constituted that I had rather read bad stuff than nothing.

the dedication to The Pumpkin Coach (1935)

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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Francis Bacon Meditationes sacræ (1597)

It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of Science, and re-discover the Mysteries of Knowledge.

Albert Pike Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith Afterthoughts (1931)

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