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Speaking Out And Up As he well knew, man's voice is an all-powerful charm. of Jesus, from Kazantzakis's The Last Temptation Alexander Chen reminisces about studying with the inimitable Annie Dillard, who echoes Mark Twain’s contention that “all ideas are second-hand, consciously and unconsciously drawn from a million outside sources,” Alexander Graham Bell’s assertion that "our most original compositions are composed exclusively of expressions derived from others,” and young Virginia Woolf’s observation that "all the Arts … imitate as far as they can the one great truth that all can see.” thanks to Maria Popova, Explore