Category: writer
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I did not set out to convert anyone to Christianity.
J. K. Rowling
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Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win – essential to success.
Napoleon Hill
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Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.
Voltaire
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Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.
Mark Twain
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When I was 21, I wanted to write like Kafka. But, unfortunately for me, I wrote like a script editor for ‘The Simpsons’ who’d briefly joined a religious cult and then discovered Foucault. Such is life.
Zadie Smith
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It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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Sometimes, when I see my granddaughters make small discoveries of their own, I wish I were a child.
Dr. Seuss
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All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.
Helen Keller
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Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God’s dust is greater than your idol.
Rabindranath Tagore
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Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.
Khalil Gibran