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- Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all. — Irwin Shaw
- Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him. — Samuel Johnson
- All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul. — John Ruskin
- And this we should believe: that hope and volition can bring us closer to our ultimate goal: justice for all, injustice for no-one. — Eyvind Johnson
- From the throes of inspiration and the eddies of thought the poet may at last be able to arrive at, and convey the right admixture of words and meaning. — Eyvind Johnson
- In the world of the present, in our time, we feel that suffering, anguish, the torments of body and soul, are greater than ever before in the history of mankind. — Eyvind Johnson