Category: writer
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One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
Jane Austen
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The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
Samuel Johnson
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Democracy no longer means what it was meant to. It has been taken back into the workshop. Each of its institutions has been hollowed out, and it has been returned to us as a vehicle for the free market, of the corporations. For the corporations, by the corporations.
Arundhati Roy
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So many killings of black men in my lifetime. The physical shock is astounding.
Alice Walker
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Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
Euripides
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Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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In my situation, every time I write a sentence, I’m thinking not only of the people I ended up in college with but my siblings, my family, my school friends, the people from my neighborhood. I’ve come to realize that this is an advantage, really: it keeps you on your toes.
Zadie Smith
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Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together.
Ray Bradbury
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We are not held back by the love we didn’t receive in the past, but by the love we’re not extending in the present.
Marianne Williamson
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Exercise is labor without weariness.
Samuel Johnson