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“Many people seem to think that art is a luxury to be imported and tacked on to life. Art springs out of the very stuff that life is made of. Most of our young authors start to write a story and make a few observations from nature to add local color. The results are invariably false and hollow. Art must spring out of the fullness and richness of life.”

Source: Willa Cather in person: interviews, speeches, and letters

“Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is; the people is never corrupted, but it is often deceived, and on such occasions only does it seem to will what is bad.”

People Doe Seems Occasions Deceived

Book:On the Social Contract

Source: On the Social Contract

“There is a class of people who seem to think that if a man should fall overboard into the sea with a Bible in his pocket it would hardly be possible to drown. I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.”

People Ifs Thinking Men Should Years Seems Fall Answers Class Sea Twenties Legs Pockets Overboard

Author:Frederick Douglass

“Traveling together is a great test, which has damaged many friendships and even honeymoons, and some people such as [Thomas] Gray and Horace Walpole, never feel quite the same to one another again, and it is nobody's fault, as one knows if one listens to the stories of both, though it seems to be some people's fault more than others.”

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Author:Rose Macaulay

“It is a pity that so often the only way to treat girls like people seems to be to treat them like boys.”

People Way Seems Girl Boys Treats Pity Like A Boy

Author:Katharine Whitehorn

“Communists all seem to wear small caps, a look I consider better suited to tubes of toothpaste than to people.”

People Looks Seems Communist Caps Tubes Toothpaste

Book:The Fran Lebowitz Reader

Source: The Fran Lebowitz Reader

“The air and the sky seem to have been freshly washed and polished, and the people too.”

People Has Beens Seems Air Sky Polished

Book:Marlene Dietrich's ABC: Wit, Wisdom, & Recipes

Source: Marlene Dietrich's ABC: Wit, Wisdom, & Recipes

“It's always seemed to me that black people's grace has been with what they do with language. In Lorrain, Ohio, when I was a child, I went to school with and heard the stories of Mexicans, Italians, and Greeks, and I listened. I remember their language, and a lot of it is marvelous. But when I think of things my mother or father or aunts used to say, it seems the most absolutely striking thing in the world.”

People Thinking World Children Has Beens Stories Seems School Remember Used Mother Father Language Black Grace Heard Greek Black People Marvelous Aunt Ohio

Author:Toni Morrison

“South Africa used to seem so far away. Then it came home to me. It began to signify the meaning of white hatred here. That was what the sheets and the suits and the ties covered up, not very well. That was what the cowardly guys calling me names from their speeding truck wanted to happen to me, to all of me: to my people. That was what would happen to me if I walked around the corner into the wrong neighborhood. That was Birmingham. That was Brooklyn. That was Reagan. That was the end of reason. South Africa was how I came to understand that I am not against war; I am against losing the war.”

“To appear to be on the inside and know more than others about what is going on is a great temptation for most people. It is a rare person who is willing to seem to know less than he does ... Somehow, people seem to feel that it is belittling to their importance not to know more than other people.”

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Author:Eleanor Roosevelt

“You seem to think that everyone can save money if they have the character to do it. As a matter of fact, there are innumerable people who have a wide choice between saving and giving their children the best possible opportunities. The decision is usually in favor of the children.”

People Ifs Thinking Giving Children Matter Character Facts Seems Choices Opportunity Decision Poverty Wide Favors Saving Matter Of Fact Saving Money

Author:Eleanor Roosevelt