Category: writer
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I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.
Paulo Coelho
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The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.
Anthony Burgess
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Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Birth was the death of him.
Samuel Beckett
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I didn’t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
Mark Twain
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Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.
Virginia Woolf
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Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.
Mark Twain
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I am a Maoist sympathiser. I’m not a Maoist ideologue, because the communist movements in history have been just as destructive as capitalism.
Arundhati Roy
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Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.
Euripides
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I dote on his very absence.
William Shakespeare