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Quote by George D. Prentice

“Many a writer seems to think he is never profound except when he can't understand his own meaning.”

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George D. Prentice was an American historical figure born on December 18, 1802, and died on January 22, 1870. His profession and life experience are limited in information. more

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Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

“The burden of the incommunicable.”

Burden

Author:Thomas de Quincey

“There is first the literature of knowledge, and secondly, the literature of power. The function of the first is--to teach; the function of the second is--to move, the first is a rudder, the second an oar or a sail. The first speaks to the mere discursive understanding; the second speaks ultimately, it may happen, to the higher understanding or reason, but always through affections of pleasure and sympathy.”