Category: writer
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There is no bigger crime, in the English comic novel, than thinking you are right.
Zadie Smith
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The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person. So violence isn’t merely organized butchery in the name of God, in the name of society or country. Violence is much more subtle, much deeper.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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You should treat a muse like a fairy.
Paulo Coelho
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To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.
Samuel Johnson
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I’ve always believed in God. I also think that’s the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you’re in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement.
Stephen King
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We judge people in areas where we’re vulnerable to shame, especially picking folks who are doing worse than we’re doing.
Brene Brown
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Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.
George Orwell
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No state of society or laws can render men so much alike but that education, fortune, and tastes will interpose some differences between them; and though different men may sometimes find it their interest to combine for the same purposes, they will never make it their pleasure.
Alexis de Tocqueville