Category: writer
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Experience – the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
Ambrose Bierce
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Cynical realism is the intelligent man’s best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.
Aldous Huxley
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Who apart from the gods is without pain for his whole lifetime’s length?
Aeschylus
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The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.
J. K. Rowling
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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
George Eliot
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You and I are, by birth, by nature, and by choice, inwardly depraved, which is to say that we are entirely corrupt. That’s not to say that we have no good in us; we do. However, anything good in us has been tainted with evil. It touches everything. Without the redeeming power of Christ we cannot halt our own moral slide.
Charles R. Swindoll
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Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Whoever is new to power is always harsh.
Aeschylus
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It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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Love is easy, and I love writing. You can’t resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you’re in love.
Ray Bradbury