Category: writer
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It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.
Virginia Woolf
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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
Leo Tolstoy
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Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.
Leo Buscaglia
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Any artist who aligns themselves with a politician is making a category error because what politicians do is not on a human scale, it is on a geopolitical scale.
Zadie Smith
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Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
Fran Lebowitz
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The present moment, if you think about it, is the only time there is. No matter what time it is, it is always now.
Marianne Williamson
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Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.
Mark Twain
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Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.
Voltaire
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Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
Albert Camus