Category: writer
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Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don’t know how to use their energy creatively so they do the opposite and destroy.
Anthony Burgess
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There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
Jane Austen
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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
Rabindranath Tagore
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Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.
Samuel Johnson
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But I’ll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you’ll come to understand that you’re connected with everything.
Alan Watts
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It’s difficult to tell the truth about how a book begins. The truth, as far as it can be presented to other people, is either wholly banal or too intimate.
Zadie Smith
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Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.
Paulo Coelho
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Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.
Jane Austen
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
George Orwell