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    Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin.

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    Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.

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    Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything.

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    Diversity in literature is, in part, about representation - who is telling the stories and who stories are told about.

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    Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.

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    Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.

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    Dogma, static positions, consonance - all these are obstacles to catching the disease of art, at least in its more complex forms.

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    Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.

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    Doesn't the theory of relativity concern literature too? In our world there is no longer any room for the privileged observer, as there is none for the observer of the universe - we are all within.

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    Do not let a flattering woman coax and wheedle you and deceive you; she is after your barn.

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    Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

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    Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.

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    Do not gain basely; base gain is equal to ruin.

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    Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.

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    Don't ever, ever, believe anyone who tells you that you can just get by, by doing the easiest thing possible. Because there's always somebody behind you who really wants to do what you're doing. And they're going to work harder than you if you're not working hard.

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    Don't rule out working with your hands. It does not preclude using your head.

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    Don't stare into a mirror when you are trying to solve a problem.

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    Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.

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    Don't ask to live in tranquil times. Literature doesn't grow there.

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    Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.

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    Dostoyevsky wrote of the unconscious as if it were conscious; that is in reality the reason why his characters seem 'pathological', while they are only visualized more clearly than any other figures in imaginative literature... He was in the rank in which we set Dante, Shakespeare and Goethe.

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    Don't you forget what's divine in the Russian soul and that's resignation.

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    Don't you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperment?

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    Do you know-I hardly remembered you? Hardly remembered me? I mean: how shall I explain? I-it's always so. Each time you happen to me all over again.

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    Do you know because I tell you so, or do you know, do you know.

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    Do you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn't it such a relief to have somebody say that?

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    Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.

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    Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society's tools, neither more nor less.

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    Drab Habitation of Whom? Tabernacle or Tomb - or Dome of Worm - or Porch of Gnome - or some Elf's Catacomb?

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    Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.

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    Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.

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    Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.

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    Duty is for Kant the One and All. Out of the duty of gratitude, he claims, one has to defend and esteem the ancients; and only out of duty has he become a great man.

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    Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.

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    each new poem is partly propelled by the formal energies of all the poems that have preceded it in the history of literature.

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    Early Islam was a time of great creativity. Scholars excelled in sciences and literature.

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    Editors of open anthologies actively seek submissions from all comers, established and unknown. They are willing to read whatever the tide washes up at their feet.

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    During our stay in London for the first time I was able to establish personal contact with some of the organic chemists, whose work I knew and admired from the literature. I found them most gracious and helpful.

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    Each system is trying to anticipate change in the environment.

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    Each of us is incomplete compared to someone else - an animal's incomplete compared to a person... and a person compared to God, who is complete only to be imaginary.

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    Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.

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    Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

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    English has a better way with colloquialisms. It has colloquialisms that are colorful and expressive but not too heavy or distracting. In German, if you use colloquialisms, it quickly descends into some kind of dialect literature.

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    English literature is a glorious inheritance which is open to all - there are no barriers, no coupons, and no restrictions. In the English language and in its great writers there are great riches and treasures, of which, of course, the Bible and Shakespeare stand along on the highest platform.

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    Europe was a very contentious subject in literature and yet jazz musicians still depended on Europe. Now it's not such a big deal.

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    Eternity eludes us, even as a thought.

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    Eurasia ended up with the most domesticated animal species in part because it's the world's largest land mass and offered the most wild species to begin with.

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    Eugene is located in western Oregon, approximately 278 billion miles from anything.

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    Even boredom has its crises.

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    Even now there is no evidence that anyone involved in the Nixon operation was going to threaten us.