“Who we are cannot be separated from where we're from.”
Malcolm Gladwell (1963) journalist and science writer
Source: Outliers: The Story of Success
“If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.”
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“The only reason I read a book is because I cannot see and converse with the man who wrote it.”
Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) American politician, 28th president of the United States (in office from 1913 to 1921)
Speech in Kansas City (12 May 1905), PWW (The Papers of Woodrow Wilson) 16:99
Unsourced variant: I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.
1900s
Jim Bishop (1907–1987) American journalist and author
As quoted by Lewis Nichols http://www.nytimes.com/1982/04/30/obituaries/lewis-nichols-times-drama-critic-during-world-war-ii-dead-at-78.html in "Talk With Jim Bishop" http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9F03EEDE133AE53BBC4E53DFB466838E649EDE, The New York Times (6 February 1955).
“124. A monk is a man who is separated from all and who is in harmony with all.”
Evagrius Ponticus (345–399) Christian monk
Chapters on Prayer
Margaret Fuller (1810–1850) American feminist, poet, author, and activist
Life Without and Life Within (1859), The One In All
José Ortega Y Gasset (1883–1955) Spanish liberal philosopher and essayist
Source: What is Philosophy? (1964), p. 15
“What democracy is cannot be separated from what democracy should be.”
Giovanni Sartori (1924–2017) Italian journalist and political scientist
The Theory of Democracy Revisited (1987), 1. Can Democracy Be Just Anyting?
L. Ron Hubbard (1911–1986) American science fiction author, philosopher, cult leader, and the founder of the Church of Scientology
"Honest People Have Rights, Too" (8 February 1960).
Scientology Bulletins