Category: writer
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I pay a lot of tax, and I feel, one of the reasons I stay and pay why I’m not based in Monaco… I think my country helped me.
J. K. Rowling
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Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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The best is the enemy of the good.
Voltaire
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The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
Honore de Balzac
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To do a great right do a little wrong.
William Shakespeare
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I cannot claim to have had a hard time publishing.
Alice Walker
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I don’t keep any copies of my books in the house – they go to my mum’s flat. I don’t like them around.
Zadie Smith
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A belief is purely an individual matter, and you cannot and must not organize it. If you do, it becomes dead, crystallized; it becomes a creed, a sect, a religion, to be imposed on others.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
Mark Twain
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Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.