Lillian Hellman on Cynicism

“Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.”

~ Lillian Hellman (June 20, 1905 – June 30, 1984)

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Mark Twain on the Politics of the Majority

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”

~ Mark Twain

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Flannery O’Connor on Universities and Writers

“Everywhere I go I’m asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don’t stifle enough of them. There’s many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.”

~ Flannery O’Connor

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Will Rogers on Reading One’s Own Writing

In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can’t read. If they could read their stuff, they’d stop writing.

~ Will Rogers

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