Literature
- 2nd Chance (novel), a 2003 novel by James Patterson
- Second Chance, a fictional spacecraft in the Commonwealth Saga by Peter F. Hamilton
- Second Chance: Three Presidents and the Crisis of American Superpower, a 2007 non-fiction book by Zbigniew Brzezinski
- Second Chance (Left Behind: The Kids), a 1998 novel by Jerry B. Jenkins and Tim LaHaye; part of the Left Behind: The Kid series
- Second Chance (novel), a 2004 novel by Danielle Steel
- "Second Chance" (short story), a story by Orson Scott Card
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“Converse with a mind that is grandly simple, and literature looks like word-catching. The simplest utterances are worthiest to be written, yet are they so cheap, and so things of course, that, in the infinite riches of the soul, it is like gathering a few pebbles off the ground, or bottling a little air in a phial, when the whole earth and the whole atmosphere are ours.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Our leading men are not of much account and never have been, but the average of the people is immense, beyond all history. Sometimes I think in all departments, literature and art included, that will be the way our superiority will exhibit itself. We will not have great individuals or great leaders, but a great average bulk, unprecedentedly great.”
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“As a man has no right to kill one of his children if it is diseased or insane, so a man who has made the gradual and conscious expression of his personality in literature the aim of his life, has no right to suppress himself any carefully considered work which seemed good enough when it was written. Suppression, if it is deserved, will come rapidly enough from the same causes that suppress the unworthy members of a man’s family.”
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