Category: writer
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It’s good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.
Mark Twain
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If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.
Leo Buscaglia
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It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.
H. P. Lovecraft
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Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
Helen Keller
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Familiarity breeds contempt – and children.
Mark Twain
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Nabokov, who I loved more than any other writer when I was young, had such contempt for dialogue. When I was younger, I never wrote a word of dialogue because of him. I thought it was a childish part of a novel.
Zadie Smith
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Everyone archetypally is a parent to future generations.
Marianne Williamson
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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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The same group of New York pseudo-intellectuals who’ve put down prayer are the same ones who put down L.A.
Marianne Williamson
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Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
George Eliot