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Like a soft blue flame, that voice settled directly into the listener’s heart and melted it. A young Frank Sinatra rocketed the song to the top—his first hit—and throughout the war years, “I’ll Never Smile Again” would connect lovers
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“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
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“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
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“The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter. ’tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.”
― The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations
― The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations
“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.”
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“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
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