For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.
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There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual.Catherine Drinker Bowen
On the Fourth of July, 1826, America celebrated its Jubilee the Fiftieth Anniversary of Independence. John Adams, second President of the United States, died that day, aged ninety, while from Maine to Georgia bells rang and cannon boomed. And on that sameday, Thomas Jefferson died before sunset in Virginia. In their dying, in that swift, so aptly celebrated double departure, is something which shakes an American to the heart. It was not their great fame, their long lives or even the record of their work that made these two seem indestructible. It was their faith, their bounding, unquenchable faith in the future, their sure, immortal belief that mankind, if it so desired, could be free.
Catherine Drinker Bowen
I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little more, as I grown older.
Catherine Drinker Bowen
Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.
Catherine Drinker Bowen
Great artists treasure their time with a bitter and snarling miserliness.
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