Category: writer
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Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn’t matter. I’m not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn’t make us better, then what on earth is it for.
Alice Walker
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Unless one is able to live fully in the present, the future is a hoax.
Alan Watts
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There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult – to begin a war and to end it.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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Those who have been writing literature have not been writing life.
Charles Bukowski
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An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person’s main task in life – becoming a better person.
Leo Tolstoy
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One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.
Mark Twain
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To forget oneself is to be happy.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don’t need an enemy.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.
Charles Bukowski
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Caste is about dividing people up in ways that preclude every form of solidarity, because even in the lowest castes, there are divisions and sub-castes, and everyone’s co-opted into the business of this hierarchical, silo-ised society.
Arundhati Roy