For a long time I thought I was a poet, but that's a high title to claim.
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That's the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.
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My only real claim to anyone's attention lies in my writing.
Philip Pullman
For that reason you can't write with music playing, and anyone who says he can is either writing badly, or not listening to the music, or lying. You need to hear what you're writing, and for that you need silence.
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It's not the presence of Christian doctrine I object to so much as the absence of Christian virtue,
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