Category: writer
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Marcel Proust
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What my character is or how many jails I have lounged in, or wards or walls or wassails, how many lonely-heart poetry readings I have dodged, is beside the point. A man’s soul or lack of it will be evident with what he can carve upon a white sheet of paper.
Charles Bukowski
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I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
Helen Keller
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Over the years, people I’ve met have often asked me what I’m working on, and I’ve usually replied that the main thing was a book about Dresden.
Kurt Vonnegut
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From politics, it was an easy step to silence.
Jane Austen
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Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.
Jane Austen
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I’m tall, fat, rather bald, red-faced, double-chinned, black-haired, have a deep voice, and wear glasses for reading.
C. S. Lewis
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I think that I’ve had a very strange life.
J. K. Rowling
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Byrne’s Law: In any electrical circuit, appliances and wiring will burn out to protect fuses.
Robert Byrne
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Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld