Category: writer
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I went abroad to Malaya and came back and tended naturally to gravitate towards the south, I suppose, near London where things seemed to be going on; but I’m still a Lancashire man, and what I want to write someday is a novel about Manchester. Very much a regional novel.
Anthony Burgess
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Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
Carl Sagan
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One man’s ‘magic’ is another man’s engineering. ‘Supernatural’ is a null word.
Robert A. Heinlein
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Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.
Samuel Johnson
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You can always tell when a man’s well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
Helen Keller
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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
Anais Nin
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It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld