Category: writer
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When I worked on a magazine, I learned that there are many, many writers writing that can’t write at all; and they keep on writing all the cliches and bromides and 1890 plots, and poems about Spring and poems about Love, and poems they think are modern because they are done in slang or staccato style, or written with all the ‘i’s’ small.
Charles Bukowski
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The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Everything is generated through your own will power.
Ray Bradbury
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Novels are such mysterious and amorphous and tender things.
Arundhati Roy
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To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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No good fish goes anywhere without a porpoise.
Lewis Carroll
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You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.
Albert Camus
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We learned about gratitude and humility – that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us to the janitors who kept our school clean… and we were taught to value everyone’s contribution and treat everyone with respect.
Michelle Obama
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Always be nice to secretaries. They are the real gatekeepers in the world.
Anthony J. D’Angelo