“I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.”
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“The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not for fame.”
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“And why? Is our genius only in our wombs? Can we not write books and create learned scholarship and perform music and provide philosophical models for the betterment of mankind?”
― Ragtime
― Ragtime
“Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)”
― Leaves of Grass
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)”
― Leaves of Grass
“Magic does that. It wastes you away. Once it grips you by the ear, the real world gets quieter and quieter, until you can hardly hear it at all.”
― Deathless
― Deathless
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