Category: writer
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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
Marianne Williamson
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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
Marcel Proust
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A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.
William Shakespeare
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One of the shocks of a 50th birthday is realizing the fundamental fact that your youth is irrevocably over.
Marianne Williamson
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No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
C. S. Lewis
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I enjoy journalism; anybody does. You see the results immediately; you’ve got an immediate audience instead of having to wait for your audience as you do if you’re writing a book, and you get a bit of money coming in, and you can see more clearly how you’re paying the bills. But it’s not a good position for the serious novelist to be in.
Anthony Burgess
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A yawn is a silent shout.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I’m always a bit suspicious of writers who have the gift of the gab.
Zadie Smith
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To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.
James Baldwin
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In Hollywood, they think they know it all. You, as a writer, are essentially an outsider. Novelists and short-story writers, especially.
Ray Bradbury