Category: writer
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I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.
Jane Austen
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I’m pro Union.
J. K. Rowling
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I willingly speak to those who know, but for those who do not know I forget.
Aeschylus
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Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.
Jane Austen
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You become a different writer when you approach a short story. When things are not always having to represent other things, you find real human beings begin to cautiously appear on your pages.
Zadie Smith
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I believe that everyone experiences depression to some degree at some time in their lives. And there are probably millions of people who live with a low level of sadness and heaviness day in and day out.
Joyce Meyer
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Everything rises and falls on leadership.
John C. Maxwell
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In no other country in the world is the love of property keener or more alert than in the United States, and nowhere else does the majority display less inclination toward doctrines which in any way threaten the way property is owned.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned… a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.
Samuel Johnson
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When humor goes, there goes civilization.
Erma Bombeck