Category: writer
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I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
Rabindranath Tagore
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Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman’s destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.
Honore de Balzac
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We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.
Samuel Johnson
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Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.
Ambrose Bierce
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Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.
Charles Bukowski
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The artist deals in what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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Truth cannot be brought down; rather, the individual must make the effort to ascend to it. You cannot bring the mountaintop to the valley. If you would attain to the mountaintop, you must pass through the valley, climb the steeps, unafraid of the dangerous precipices.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
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‘My country, right or wrong’ is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying ‘My mother, drunk or sober.’
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.
James Baldwin