Category: writer
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Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.
Jane Austen
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Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.
George Eliot
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My feeling is, having lived in different classes, that people want equality of opportunity… that’s the thing that makes me despair: the idea that people aren’t given equality of opportunity.
Zadie Smith
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I love all of the arts. I love motion pictures. I love stage. I love theater.
Ray Bradbury
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Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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There’s nothing worse than sitting down to write a novel and saying, ‘Well, okay, I’m going to do something of high artistic worth.’
Douglas Adams
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
Anais Nin
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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.
Albert Camus
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You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.
Samuel Johnson