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"Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers." -
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T.S. Eliot
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Top 5 quotes from T.S. Eliot
"For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business."
"Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature."
"Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves."
"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."
"In the vain laughter of folly, wisdom hears half its applause."
Top 5 quotes from Writing
"Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets."
"There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention."
"Special-interest publications should realize that if they are attracting enough advertising and readers to make a profit, the interest is not so special."
"Fiction is the truth inside the lie."
"Advice to young writers who want to get ahead without annoying delays: don’t write about Man, write about 'a' man."
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