Category: writer
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All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.
Samuel Johnson
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It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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Business, that’s easily defined – it’s other people’s money.
Peter Drucker
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Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.
Mark Twain
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A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over… is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Religion and ritual can be vehicles for entering stillness. It says in Psalm 46:10, ‘Be still, and know that I am God.’ But they are still just vehicles. The Buddha called his teaching a raft: You don’t need to carry it around with you after you’ve crossed the river.
Eckhart Tolle
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My mother had bought a sewing machine for me. When I went away to college, she gave me a sewing machine, a typewriter and a suitcase, and my mother made $17 a week working as a maid 12 hours a day, and she did that for me.
Alice Walker
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We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.
Aldous Huxley
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Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.
Ambrose Bierce