Category: writer
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Don’t confuse honours with achievement.
Zadie Smith
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To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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The word ‘good’ has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.
Albert Camus
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It is easier to stay out than get out.
Mark Twain
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Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they are unfortunate, a wet sponge with one dash wipes the picture away.
Aeschylus
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Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
Marianne Williamson
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If the Negro in the ghetto must eternally be fed by the hand that pushes him into the ghetto, he will never become strong enough to get out of the ghetto.
Carter G. Woodson
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The fact is that when you do something from your heart, you leave a heart print.
Alice Walker