Category: writer
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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
Audre Lorde
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A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
C. S. Lewis
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It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.
George Orwell
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Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
Samuel Johnson
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Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
C. S. Lewis
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Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you’ll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.
William Shakespeare
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Most women I know are priestesses and healers… We are, all of us, sisters of a mysterious order.
Marianne Williamson
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And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves ‘It’s pretty, but is it Art?’
Rudyard Kipling
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If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don’t marry and have kids, and above all, don’t die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that.
Ursula K. Le Guin