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I started to send my work to journals when I was 26, which was jus

I started to send my work to journals when I was 26, which was just a question of when I got the courage up. They were mostly journals I had been reading for the previous six or seven years. – Marilyn Hacker

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My mother was told she couldnt go to medical school because she was a woman and a Jew. So she became a teacher in the New York City public school system. – Marilyn Hacker

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When you translate poetry in particular, youre obliged to look at how the writer with whom youre working puts together words, sentences, phrases, the triple tension between the line of verse, the syntax and the sentence. – Marilyn Hacker

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In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance. – Joseph Stalin

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Being gifted needs courage. – Georg Brandes

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An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery. – Joseph Pulitzer

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I think that people need to have the courage of their convictions and not be trying to fool people into thinking that theyve changed overnight. – Chris Bell

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