Category: writer
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There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
Ray Bradbury
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Orthodox Christianity, by playing upon the emotions of man, is able to accomplish wonders toward keeping him in order and relieving his mind. It can frighten or cajole him away from evil more effectively than could reason.
H. P. Lovecraft
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I don’t take notes. I don’t have any notebooks. I keep on trying to do that because it seems like a very writerly thing to do, but my mind doesn’t work that way. I tend to get the idea for a novel in a big splash.
Zadie Smith
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When I went to college in the 1970s, the Women’s Liberation movement was all the buzz.
Marianne Williamson
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Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.
Aldous Huxley
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An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.
Samuel Johnson
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A stiff apology is a second insult… The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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He said it was artificial respiration, but now I find I am to have his child.
Anthony Burgess
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The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.
Erma Bombeck