Quote by Agnes Smedley
Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only. - Agne

Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only. – Agnes Smedley

Other quotes by Agnes Smedley

And the woman who could win the respect of man was often the woman who could knock him down with her bare fists and sit on him until he yelled for help. – Agnes Smedley

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respect
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Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster. – Agnes Smedley

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Family
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Now, being a girl, I was ashamed of my body and my lack of strength. So I tried to be a man. I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys. – Agnes Smedley

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strength
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Imagination
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I had been a reporter for 15 years when I set out to write my first novel. I knew how to research an article or profile a subject – skills that I assumed would be useless when it came to fiction. It was from my imagination that the characters in my story would emerge. – Amy Waldman

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Imagination

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young. – W. Somerset Maugham

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Imagination

Imagination is the eye of the soul. – Joseph Joubert

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Imagination

The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt. – Henry George

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Imagination

Random Quotes

Writing doesnt come real easy to me. I couldnt write a novel in a year. It wouldnt be readable. I dont let an editor even look at it until the second year, because it would just scare them. I just have to trust that all these scraps and dead-ends will find a way. – Charles Frazier

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Trust

No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women… When black people are talked about the focus tends to be on black men and when women are talked about the focus tends to be on white women. – Bell Hooks

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Women

Gay writers now have both a sense of history and the fables that allows them to dwell in the realms of the ridiculous and at the same time talk seriously about things. – Tony Kushner

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History

All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress. – Tennessee Williams

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God