Quote by Matthew Arnold
People think that I can teach them style. What stuff it all is. Ha

People think that I can teach them style. What stuff it all is. Have something to say and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret of style. – Matthew Arnold

Other quotes by Matthew Arnold

Tis not to see the world
As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes,
And heart profoundly stirred;
And weep, and feel the fullness of the past,
The years that are not more. – Matthew Arnold

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Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly. – Matthew Arnold

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America
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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm. – Joseph Addison

The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him. – James Baldwin

Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about. – W. H. Auden

Some authors should be paid by the quantity NOT written. – Anon.

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I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance. – Adlai E. Stevenson

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Whatever ought to be, can be. – James Rouse

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God bless you if you have one child, but I dont think anybody should have just one child. Everybody needs a sibling. I have siblings, and I have so many amazing, precious memories with my siblings. I dont know what I would do if I had been an only child. – Sherri Shepherd

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