Category: writer
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Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.
George Orwell
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It’s a struggle but that’s why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.
Audre Lorde
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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Seeking can become stressful when you apply the same laws that you apply in the material world – hard work, exacting plans, driving ambition, and attachment to outcome.
Deepak Chopra
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There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.
Charles Dickens
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And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it… that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
Dale Carnegie
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The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
Leo Tolstoy
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Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Why would anyone steal a shopping cart? It’s like stealing a two-year-old.
Erma Bombeck