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No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle

Sentimentally I am disposed to harmony; but organically I am incapable of a tune

A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer

It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new

I have never yet been able to perceive how anything can be known for truth by consecutive reasoning - and yet it must be