Imaginative writing has always been a solitary and indeed a somewhat antisocial activity. Apprenticeship existed, no doubt, but … - Madison Smartt Bell

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Sometimes you can gradually improve things. But sometimes, they don't work, and you've just got to just say: Let's grind this baby to a halt.

Madison Smartt Bell

Imaginative writing has always been a solitary and indeed a somewhat antisocial activity. Apprenticeship existed, no doubt, but it was an apprenticeship to books and not to living masters of the craft.

Activity, Book, Craft, Doubt, Writing

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I dont call myself a very good Christian, but I think I know one when I see one, and I also think I know when I dont.

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Jeremy Popkin's collection of first-person narratives of the Haitian Revolution is an extremely valuable work, accessible, sound and intelligent. I only wish such a book had been available fifteen years ago when I was in the early stages of researching my series of novels. Popkin has been deft and tactful in stitching together these excerpts, and as a result, he manages to tell a complete version of the Revolution almost entirely in the words of the people who experienced it-this book engaged me deeply.

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Since the 1960s, exile for Haitians is a condition that ends only to begin again.

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Haiti was founded by African slaves who rose against their European masters, had a revolution, and created a new state. There is no other such event in Western history.

African, Events, Haiti, Rose, Slaves

To me, there is nothing more soothing than the song of a mosquito that cant get through the mesh to bite you.

Mesh, Mosquito, Mosquitoes, Nothing, Song, Soothing

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I should have learned this, she thought. I wanted to learn fire, and pain, but I should have learned people.

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Love is not a feeling to pass away Like the balmy breath of a Summer's day. . . . . . . Love is not a passion of earthly mould As a thirst for honour, or fame, or gold

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Abigail Johnson

Sometimes you can gradually improve things. But sometimes, they don't work, and you've just got to just say: Let's grind this baby to a halt.

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Sharon Van Etten

My mom used to ask me when I was gonna write a happy song. I still tell her that it's when I start to write really happy-sounding songs that everyone needs to start worrying.

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Linus Torvalds

Software patents, in particular, are very ripe for abuse. The whole system encourages big corporations getting thousands and thousands of patents. Individuals almost never get them.

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