Category: writer
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The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.
Alice Walker
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I am a Catholic.
Paulo Coelho
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I have truly known what it means for a writer to feel loved.
Arundhati Roy
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When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.
William Shakespeare
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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.
George Eliot
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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
George Eliot
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The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Books are sharks… because sharks have been around for a very long time. There were sharks before there were dinosaurs, and the reason sharks are still in the ocean is that nothing is better at being a shark than a shark.
Douglas Adams
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There’s always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself – whether it’s Black, woman, mother, dyke, teacher, etc. – because that’s the piece that they need to key in to. They want to dismiss everything else.
Audre Lorde