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«It is not difficult to write in Spanish; the Spanish language is a gift from the gods which we Spaniards take for granted. I take comfort therefore in the belief that you wished to pay tribute to a glorious language and not to the humble writer who uses it for everything it can express: the joy and the wisdom of Mankind, since literature is an art form of all and for all, although written without deference, heeding only the voiceless, anonymous murmur of a given place and time.»
«And then, not expecting it, you become middle-aged and anonymous. No one notices you. You achieve a wonderful freedom.»
«For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.»
Author: Virginia Woolf (Writer) | About: Men and Women | Keywords: anonymous, history
«He wants to live on through something-and in his case, his masterpiece is his son. all of us want that, and it gets more poignant as we get more anonymous in this world.»
«I would rather have as my patron a host of anonymous citizens digging into their own pockets for the price of a book or a magazine than a small body of enlightened and responsible men administering public funds. I would rather chance my personal vision of truth striking home here and there in the chaos of publication that exists than attempt to filter it through a few sets of official, honorably public-spirited scruples.»
«The only truly anonymous donor is the guy who knocks up your daughter»
«Never answer an anonymous letter»
Author: Yogi Berra (Baseball Player, Manager) | About: Advice | Keywords: anonymous, letter
«There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.»
«A work of art has an author and yet, when it is perfect, it has something which is anonymous about it»
«Take away from Genesis the belief that Moses was the author, on which only the strange belief that it is the word of God has stood, and there remains nothing of Genesis but an anonymous book of stories, fables, and traditional or invented absurdities»