Category: writer
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I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.
Erma Bombeck
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To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.
Alice Walker
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Much publishing is done through politics, friends, and natural stupidity.
Charles Bukowski
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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Say not, ‘I have found the truth,’ but rather, ‘I have found a truth.’
Khalil Gibran
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Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.
Mark Twain
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People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.
James Baldwin
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Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.
Peter Drucker
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Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.
George Eliot
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I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool.
John Steinbeck