"The writer has a fundamental responsibility to write well or to write the best he can, because if he doesn’t he’s not a writer. And when a writer writes, he’s always referring to a social and historical context…"

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“I never keep a fixed schedule. I like to write for a while, move around, read, drink something, come back. But when I’ve entered the world of the novel, that demands more concentration. It’s hard to even write a letter, because it means leaving that world. To put aside the typewriter and take out letter paper, or stop because you have to pay the phone bill, is terrible…”

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“In exile one is nothing but a ghost ... I ceased to exist when I went into exile.”

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"All these require arrangements, depending on the materials, so that you can have the tools, the equipment, the metallics and the rest of it already prepared. Because the shortage of these things creat…"

— Hippocrates

Medicine-469–-407

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"When you review an exhibition of paintings you don't compose a painting about it, when you review a film you don't make a film about it and when you review a new CD you don't make a little CD about it…"

— Martin Amis

Literature1949–2023

#writing

"WHOREDOM and bastardy are defect with regard to a female slave, but not with regard to a male. because the object, in purchase of a female slave, is cohabitation and the generation of children, which …"

— Burhan al-Din al-Marghinani

1135–1197

#family

"The division of distinctive social roles and tasks, based upon both inherited and socially acquired individual differences, is called social differentiation."

— Walter F. Buckley

Education1922–2006

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