Category: writer
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Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
Marcel Proust
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When a human being becomes a set of data on a website like Facebook, he or she is reduced. Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships. Language. Sensibility.
Zadie Smith
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Secretly we’re all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.
J. K. Rowling
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The basic premise of ‘A Course in Miracles’ is that it teaches us to relinquish thoughts based on fear and to accept instead thoughts based on love.
Marianne Williamson
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We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.
Charles R. Swindoll
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Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.
Mark Twain
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Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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I am not a self-help writer. I am a self-problem writer. When people read my books, I provoke some things. I cannot justify my work. I do my work; it is up to them to classify it, to judge.
Paulo Coelho
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I never attended a creative writing class in my life. I have a horror of them; most writers groups moonlight as support groups for the kind of people who think that writing is therapeutic. Writing is the exact opposite of therapy.
Zadie Smith
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You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.
Napoleon Hill