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Walter Bagehot
: The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.
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The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
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Question number one is from someone who calls himself "The Controvert." He says, "Hi, Tina, I love you in the show. In my humble opinion, when a show pushes the boundaries, you end up with a lot of passionate people on both sides. What do you think of the criticism the show gets?" I think that people who say they love the show and they think it's great and they write good reviews of it, are-are correct and that people who don't like the show for any reason are probably-they're just confusing it with Studio 60.
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There never was a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn't be. He is too many people, if he's any good.
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Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs.
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If the reviewing of books be... an ungentle craft, the making of them is, for the most part, a dishonest one -- and that department of literature which ought to be entrusted to those only who are distinguished for their moral qualities is, not infrequently, in the hands of authors totally devoid of good taste, good feeling, and generous sentiment. The writers of Lives have, in our time, assumed a license not enjoyed by their more scrupulous predecessors -- for they interweave the adventures of the living with the memoirs of the dead; and, pretending to portray the peculiarities which sometimes mark the man of genius, they invade the privacy and disturb the peace of his surviving associates.
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People do not deserve to have good writings; they are so pleased with the bad.
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All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since.
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A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason.
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A man always has two reasons for doing anything -- a good reason and the real reason.
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One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
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The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.
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Nothing is more unpleasant that a virtuous person with a mean mind.
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It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.
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The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds.
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Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.
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So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism -- despotism during the campaign -- is indispensable.
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An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.
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