Category: writer
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All of us are living with dogmas that we accept as truths. When one of these is overturned, there’s an initial gasp, soon followed by a rush of exhilaration.
Deepak Chopra
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He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.
William Shakespeare
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To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody’s mind continuously. External things like possessions or memories or failures or successes or achievements. Your personal history.
Eckhart Tolle
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With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I’ve come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.
J. K. Rowling
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There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.
George Orwell
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All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
Leo Tolstoy
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An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight… the truly wise person is colorblind.
Albert Schweitzer
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If I had my choice, I would be writing by typewriter. I worked on newspapers for 10 years. I typed with the touch system, and unfortunately, you can’t keep typewriters going today. You have to take the ribbons back to be re-inked. You have to – it’s a horrible search to try to find missing parts. So I went to the computer.
Tom Wolfe
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When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.
Samuel Johnson