Category: writer
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The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
C. S. Lewis
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I was the only kid who anybody I knew has ever seen actually walk into a lamppost with his eyes wide open. Everybody assumed that there must be something going on inside, because there sure as hell wasn’t anything going on the outside!
Douglas Adams
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Can people who hunger so desperately for what other people have ever have enough?
Alice Walker
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When I think of vision, I have in mind the ability to see above and beyond the majority.
Charles R. Swindoll
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In my work, as a writer, I only photograph, in words, what I see.
Charles Bukowski
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Romantic love is mental illness. But it’s a pleasurable one. It’s a drug. It distorts reality, and that’s the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.
Fran Lebowitz
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It is really very important while you are young to live in an environment in which there is no fear. Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbours, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
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The first lover is kept a long while, when no offer is made of a second.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
Albert Schweitzer
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People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Dale Carnegie