The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion.
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The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.Elizabeth Drew
Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation.
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Democracy, like any non-coercive relationship, rests on a shared understanding of limits.
Elizabeth Drew
The inspired scribbler always has the gift for gossip in our common usage he or she can always inspire the commonplace with an uncommon flavor, and transform trivialities by some original grace or sympathy or humor or affection.
Elizabeth Drew
We read poetry because the poets, like ourselves, have been haunted by the inescapable tyranny of time and death have suffered the pain of loss, and the more wearing, continuous pain of frustration and failure and have had moods of unlooked-for release and peace. They have known and watched in themselves and others.
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