Writing fantasy lets me imagine a great deal more than, say, writing about alligators, and lets me write about places more distant than Florida, but I can tell you things about Florida and alligators, let you make the connection all on your own.
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PHILLIPS BROOKS The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of t... PHILLIPS BROOKS Let every man and woman count himself immortal. Let him catch the revelation of Jesus in his resurre... PHILLIPS BROOKS The feet of the humblest may walk in the field Where the feet of the Holiest trod, This, then, is th... PHILLIPS BROOKS It does not take great men to do great things; it only takes consecrated men. PHILLIPS BROOKS Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it. PHILLIPS BROOKS To say, 'well done' to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made th... PHILLIPS BROOKS Forgive, forget. Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours. PHILLIPS BROOKS Happiness is the natural flower of duty. PHILLIPS BROOKS Just keep taking chances and having fun. GARTH BROOKS In the future, I'm sure there will be a lot more robots in every aspect of life. If you told peo... RODNEY BROOKS When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that th... GWENDOLYN BROOKS Don't let anyone call you a minority if you're black or Hispanic or belong to some other eth... GWENDOLYN BROOKS I've always thought of myself as a reporter. GWENDOLYN BROOKS I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker. GWENDOLYN BROOKS Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing wi... GWENDOLYN BROOKS I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, e... GWENDOLYN BROOKS Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come Again in this ident... GWENDOLYN BROOKS Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home. GWENDOLYN BROOKS First fight. Then fiddle. GWENDOLYN BROOKS What I'm fighting for now in my work... for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poem... GWENDOLYN BROOKS When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes... GWENDOLYN BROOKS A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it wer... GWENDOLYN BROOKS Look at what's happening in this world. Every day there's something exciting or disturbing t... GWENDOLYN BROOKS