“Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?”
Source: Bluebeard (1987), p. 168
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Source: 1980s, The Ecstasy of Communication (1987), p. 30
<p>Original: Triste de quem vive em casa,
Contente com o seu lar,
Sem que um sonho, no erguer de asa,
Faça até mais rubra a brasa
Da lareira a abandonar!</p><p>Triste de quem é feliz!
Vive porque a vida dura.
Nada na alma lhe diz
Mais que a lição da raiz-
Ter por vida a sepultura.</p>
Poem "O Quinto Império" http://www.inverso.pt/Mensagem/Encoberto/QuintoImperio.htm, lines 1–10
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“Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.”
The Florence King Reader (1995)
“I always say that I’m a writer who writes more from place than race.”
On the theme that she most explores in “Art Talk with Playwright Katori Hall” https://www.arts.gov/art-works/2015/art-talk-playwright-katori-hall (National Endowment of the Arts; 2015 May 28)
A Historical Introduction to the Study of the Books of the New Testament (London: John Murray, 1885; 4th ed. 1889), p. 203 http://archive.org/stream/historicalintrod00salmuoft#page/203/mode/2up.
Letter to Shirley Wiley (30 March 1954), in The Letters of E. B. White (1989), p. 391
“For he who lives more lives than one
More deaths than one must die.”
Pt. III, st. 22
The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898)
Source: The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Poems
Source: Cultural diversity: a richness for the Church http://www.archivioradiovaticana.va/storico/2013/12/21/cultural_diversity_a_richness_for_the_church_/en1-757749 (21 December 2013)