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The Congressional leaders set the agenda for journalism; it's not the other way around.

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Willa Cather

Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.

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Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky.

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When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck; we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless.

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But whether thus submissively or not, at least be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.

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The Congressional leaders set the agenda for journalism; it's not the other way around.

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