Category: writer
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In the East, the guru never calls himself a guru.
Marianne Williamson
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A person who sets his or her mind on the dark side of life, who lives over and over the misfortunes and disappointments of the past, prays for similar misfortunes and disappointments in the future. If you will see nothing but ill luck in the future, you are praying for such ill luck and will surely get it.
Rhonda Byrne
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The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
Amelia Earhart
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Faith minus vulnerability and mystery equals extremism. If you’ve got all the answers, then don’t call what you do ‘faith.’
Brene Brown
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I have an ambition to write a great book, but that’s really a competition with myself. I’ve noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don’t really want to do anything. I can’t think of anything less worth striving for than fame.
Zadie Smith
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Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.
Virginia Woolf
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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.
Jane Austen
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That I be not as those are who spend the day in complaining of headache and the night in drinking the wine which gives the headache!
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe