Category: writer
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For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing.
William Shakespeare
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I know how men in exile feed on dreams.
Aeschylus
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Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.
Marianne Williamson
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So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
Aldous Huxley
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I can’t say that there are ‘things’ that make me come alive. There are thoughts that make me come alive.
Marianne Williamson
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We’re in very bad trouble if we don’t understand the planet we’re trying to save.
Carl Sagan
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You never realise how much of your background is sewn into the lining of your clothes.
Tom Wolfe
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Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one’s beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.
James Baldwin
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The lack of alternatives to an illegal action does not legitimise that action.
Zadie Smith