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What pioneer ever had chart and a lighthouse to steer by?


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Writing is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living.



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What the writer needs is an empty day ahead.



Biographers, by their very nature, want to know everything about everybody, dead or alive.

Biographers, by their very nature, want to know everything about everybody, dead or alive.



History is, in its essence, exciting; to present it as dull is, to my mind, stark and unforgivable misrepresentation.

History is, in its essence, exciting; to present it as dull is, to my mind, stark and unforgivable misrepresentation.



Artists often think they are going to die before their time. They seem to possess a heightened sense of the passing of the hours.

Artists often think they are going to die before their time. They seem to possess a heightened sense of the passing of the hours.



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If art has a purpose, it is to interpret life, reproduce it in fresh visions.



In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink, the facts printed in black ink.

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This page presents the quote "What pioneer ever had chart and a lighthouse to steer by?". Author of this quote is Catherine Drinker Bowen. This quote is about lighthouse, pioneers, work,.