Category: writer
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The only thing that relaxes me is archery. That’s why I have to have apartments with gardens.
Paulo Coelho
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When solving problems, dig at the roots instead of just hacking at the leaves.
Anthony J. D’Angelo
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Some people displease with merit, and others’ very faults and defects are pleasing.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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In October 1920 I went to Leeds as Reader in English Language, with a free commission to develop the linguistic side of a large and growing School of English Studies, in which no regular provision had as yet been made for the linguistic specialist.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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Bo Derek is a really good friend of mine, and I’d like to spend more time with her.
Ray Bradbury
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We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.
Alan Watts
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All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
Marcel Proust
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The thing about the 600 words, I mean some day, you can do a very, very, very hard day’s work and not write a word, just revising, or you would scribble a few words.
J. K. Rowling
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If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.
Rudyard Kipling
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We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ourselves.
Leo Buscaglia