Category: writer
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The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
Edgar Allan Poe
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The victor belongs to the spoils.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I read somewhere that writers, as they get older, become more and more perfectionist. Which may be because they think more highly of themselves and they worry about their reputations. I think there’s some truth to that.
Tom Wolfe
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I think our capacity for wholeheartedness can never be greater than our willingness to be broken-hearted. It means engaging with the world from a place of vulnerability and worthiness.
Brene Brown
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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.
Ambrose Bierce
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Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?
Honore de Balzac
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
Mark Twain