Category: writer
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In the summer of 1966, I went to Mississippi to be in the heart of the civil-rights movement, helping people who had been thrown off the farms or taken off the welfare roles for registering to vote. While working there, I met the civil-rights lawyer I later married – we became an interracial couple.
Alice Walker
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A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Music for me, it demands full concentration.
Paulo Coelho
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A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.
William Shakespeare
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Generally, a writer of force is anywhere from 20 years to 200 years ahead of his generation.
Charles Bukowski
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When I was in my teens I had issues with OCD.
J. K. Rowling
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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Leo Tolstoy
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I am not happy, and the quest for happiness as a principal objective is not part of my world. Of course, ever since I can remember, I have done what I felt like doing.
Paulo Coelho
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Being ‘contented’ ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.
Gilbert K. Chesterton