“She had observed that the more education they got, the less they could do. Their father had gone to a one-room schoolhouse through the eighth grade and he could do anything.”

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American novelist, short story writer 1925–1964

James Nicoll (1961) Canadian fiction reviewer

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“… the more he did nothing, the less time he had to do anything.”

Leo Tolstoy book Anna Karenina

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“She just happened to feel like it. Wasn’t that after all, the only reason there was? Had she ever had a less selfish, more complicated reason for doing anything in her life?”

Richard Yates book Revolutionary Road

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“Clavain had been a soldier. He had killed more people than he could remember, even though those days had been a long time ago. It was really a lot less difficult to do when you had a cause to believe in.”

Alastair Reynolds (1966) British novelist and astronomer

Glacial (p. 102)
Short fiction, Galactic North (2006)

“Adams could no more interest Algernon Swinburne than he could interest Encke's comet. To Swinburne he could be no more than a worm. The quality of genius was an education almost ultimate, for one touched there the limits of the human mind on that side; but one could only receive; one had nothing to give — nothing even to offer.”

Henry Adams (1838–1918) journalist, historian, academic, novelist

The Education of Henry Adams (1907)

“He was over at my house every day between fifth grade and eighth grade.”

James Blake (1979) American tennis player

On his childhood relationship with John Mayer <br class="br">From Outtakes with James Blake, June 23, 2003 issue of ESPN Magazine http://espn.go.com/talent/danpatrick/s/2003/0609/1565617.html