The idea that it is necessary to go to a university in order to become a successful writer . . . is one of those phantasies that surround authorship.
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All that a pacifist can undertake -- but it is a very great deal -- is to refuse to kill, injure or otherwise cause suffering to another human creature, and untiringly to order his life by the rule of love though others may be captured by hate.
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The pacifists, task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive substitute for war.
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I found in you a holy place apart, Sublime endurance, God in man revealed; Where mending broken bodies slowly healed; My broken heart.
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I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading.
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For the courage of greatness is adventurous and knows not withdrawing, But grasps the nettle, danger, with resolute hands,and ever again Gathers security from the sting of pain.
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