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“To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.”
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“Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.”
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“Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.”
― Walden
― Walden
“I cannot make speeches, Emma...If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am. You hear nothing but truth from me. I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have borne it as no other woman in England would have borne it.”
― Emma
― Emma
“The point I would make is that the novelist and the historian are seeking the same thing: the truth – not a different truth: the same truth – only they reach it, or try to reach it, by different routes. Whether the event took place in a world now gone to dust, preserved by documents and evaluated by scholarship, or in the imagination, preserved by memory and distilled by the creative process, they both want to tell us how it was: to re-create it, by their separate methods, and make it live again in the world around them.”
― The Civil War, Vol. 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville
― The Civil War, Vol. 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville
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