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- "...It is easy enough to say that man is immortal simply because
- he will endure: then when the last ding-dong of doom has clanged
- and faded from the last worthless rock hanging tideless in the last
- red and dying evening, that even then there will still be one more
- sound: that of his puny inexhaustible voice still talking. ... It
- is his privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart, by
- reminding him of courage and honor and hope and pride and compassion
- and pity and sacrifice which have been the glory of his past. ..."
-
- - William Faulkner
-
-
- "... It smelled of hides and tan bark and the big piles of sawdust.
- It was getting dark as we came in, and now that it was dark it was
- cold and the puddles of water in the road were freezing at the
- edges. ..."
-
- - Ernest Hemingway
-
-
- " ... It belonged to a gentle ne'er-do-well, who did nothing all
- day long but drink bathtub gin in rickeys and play solitaire and
- smile to himself and talk to his animals. ... "
-
- - Jean Stafford
-
-
- " ... It is now necessary to warn the writer that his concern
- for the reader must be pure: he must sympathize with the reader's
- plight (most readers are in trouble half the time) but never
- seek to know his wants. ... "
-
- - William Strunk and E. B. White
-
-
-
- (Apologizes to publishers for unauthorized use of quotes)
-