Category: writer
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It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.
Charles Dickens
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I’m interested in that drive, that rush to judgment, that is so prevalent in our society. We all know that pleasurable rush that comes from condemning, and in the short term it’s quite a satisfying thing to do, isn’t it?
J. K. Rowling
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Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
Honore de Balzac
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You have to give others the opportunity to love who you love. If they don’t accept it, it’s their loss.
Alice Walker
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First would be the literary side, then the spiritual and philosophical. The political side is required principally because of the necessity of the current Russian position.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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This is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money and power and no empathy.
Alice Walker
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Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
William Shakespeare
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Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.
Rabindranath Tagore
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Heaven knows where I’ll end up – but it’s a safe bet that I’ll never be at the top of anything! Nor do I particularly care to be.
H. P. Lovecraft