Category: writer
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I’m a natural clown, I suppose, in writing, and one has to accept that; I can’t do anything about it. I have written one or two novels which are not specifically funny. I wrote a study of Shakespeare which was not intended to be funny, but some people regard it as such.
Anthony Burgess
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Mysteries are not necessarily miracles.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Philip Roth is a fabulous writer, but he pretty much stays within his own life. He’s so good – I mean, practically anything I’ve ever read of his I’ve really enjoyed. He just has tremendous talent. But I think he should have given himself a break and gone deeper into the society.
Tom Wolfe
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When I went to high school, my most passionate desire was to be a professional baseball player. But something within me told me that was not going to happen.
Tom Wolfe
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Talent and effort, combined with our various backgrounds and life experiences, has always been the lifeblood of our singular American genius.
Michelle Obama
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The power of the periodical press is second only to that of the people.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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Doubt begins only at the last frontiers of what is possible.
Ambrose Bierce
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I don’t like the clean-shaven boy with the necktie and the good job. I like desperate men, men with broken teeth and broken minds and broken ways. They interest me. They are full of surprises and explosions.
Charles Bukowski
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I know of only one duty, and that is to love.
Albert Camus
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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.
Mark Twain