She writes like a loom, producing her broad rich fabric with hardly a thought of how it will make up into a shape, while I write to cover a frame of ideas.

Quote by H G Wells

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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the...

Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the...

Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they...

Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they...

The past is but the past of a beginning.

The past is but the past of a beginning.

One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the...

One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the...

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize...

After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize...

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us...

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us...

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

Advertising is legalized lying.

Advertising is legalized lying.

While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that...

While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that...

If we don't end war, war will end us.

If we don't end war, war will end us.

I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.

I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.

Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since...

Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since...

Human history in essence is the history of ideas.

Human history in essence is the history of ideas.

The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done...

The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done...

We seem to gain wisdom more readily through our failures than through our successes. We...

We seem to gain wisdom more readily through our failures than through our successes. We...

If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavors to live the...

If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavors to live the...