Category: writer
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You don’t have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn’t know you possessed.
Napoleon Hill
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The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.
Voltaire
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I started writing as a child. But I didn’t think of myself actually writing until I was in college. And I had gone to Africa as a sophomore or something – no, maybe junior – and wrote a book of poems. And that was my beginning. I published that book.
Alice Walker
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Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.
Aeschylus
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Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago.
Erma Bombeck
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All God’s children are not beautiful. Most of God’s children are, in fact, barely presentable.
Fran Lebowitz
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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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I think the heartbreak of September 11 – America’s grief not only over the loss of life but also the loss of our own innocence – has expanded us as people because it has tenderized our hearts. On a psychological level, the American people have matured as a result of that awful day.
Marianne Williamson
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A person who can’t pay gets another person who can’t pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don’t make either of them able to do a walking-match.
Charles Dickens
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What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.
Richard Bach