Category: writer
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There’s an ecstatic side to writing. It’s like jazz. It just has a life.
Alice Walker
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Nature seems at each man’s birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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If you know a good player who is tempted by pool hustling, introduce him at once to a career guidance counselor, a psychotherapist, or a surgeon who does lobotomies.
Robert Byrne
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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
Marcel Proust
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All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Empires always have the hubris to think they are indestructible, when in fact they are always unsustainable.
Marianne Williamson
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Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.
Samuel Johnson
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When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.
Dale Carnegie
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Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.
Eckhart Tolle
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Substitute ‘damn’ every time you’re inclined to write ‘very’; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.
Mark Twain