“ Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. ”
- Mary Flannery O’Connor- Copy
- 3.8K
“ Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on. ”
- Samuel Beckett- Copy
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“ While we wait in silence for that final luxury of fearlessness, the weight of that silence will choke us. ”
- Audre Lorde- Copy
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“ If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief. ”
- Benjamin Disraeli- Copy
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“ War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves. ”
- Leo Tolstoy- Copy
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“ We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and even if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still. ”
- John Stuart Mill- Copy
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“ The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it. ”
- Anne Germain De Stael- Copy
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“ On this narrow planet, we have only the choice between two unknown worlds. One of them tempts us — ah! what a dream, to live in that! — the other stifles us at the first breath. ”
- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette- Copy
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“ Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. ”
- Flannery O’Connor- Copy
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“ For we have been socialized to respect fear more than our own needs for language and definition, and while we wait in silence for that final luxury of fearlessness, the weight of that silence will choke us. ”
- Audre Lorde- Copy
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“ I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by a dryrot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in a magnificient glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet… ”
- Jack London- Copy
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“ It is the first step in sociological wisdom, to recognize that the major advances in civilisation are processes which all but wreck the societies in which they occur: like unto an arrow in the hand of a child. The art of free society consists first in the maintenance of the symbolic code; and secondly in fearlessness of revision, to secure that the code serves those purposes which satisfy an enlightened reason… ”
- Alfred North Whitehead- Copy
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“ We are educated in the grossest ignorance, and no art omitted to stifle our natural reason; if some few get above their nurses instructions, our knowledge must rest concealed and be as useless to the world as gold in the mine. ”
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu- Copy
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“ The roaring of the wind is my wife and the stars through the window pane are my children. The mighty abstract idea I have of beauty in all things stifles the more divided and minute domestic happiness. ”
- John Keats- Copy
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“ Never has any one been less a priest than Jesus, never a greater enemy of forms, which stifle religion under the pretext of protecting it. By this we are all his disciples and his successors; by this he has laid the eternal foundation-stone of true religion; and if religion is essential to humanity, he has by this deserved the Divine rank the world has accorded him. ”
- Ernest Renan- Copy
- 999
“ Maternity is on the face of it an unsociable experience. The selfishness that a woman has learned to stifle or to dissemble where she alone is concerned, blooms freely and unashamed on behalf of her offspring. ”
- Emily James Putnam- Copy
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