There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.

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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses...

The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses...

Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed...

The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed...

Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women...

Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women...

I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.

I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.

Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses...

The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses...

People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.

People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.

The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women...

Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women...

The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age...

The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age...

Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.

A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.

The facts are always less than what really happened.

The facts are always less than what really happened.

Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made...

Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made...

Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter

Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter

From Ernest Hemingway's stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid...

From Ernest Hemingway's stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid...

Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter.

Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter.

A desert is a place without expectation.

A desert is a place without expectation.