Category: writer
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We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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English, as a subject, never really got over its upstart nature. It tries to bulk itself up with hopeless jargon and specious complexity, tries to imitate subjects it can never be.
Zadie Smith
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I love science fiction – always have.
Simon Sinek
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Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
Ambrose Bierce
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I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We’ve been taught that silence would save us, but it won’t.
Audre Lorde
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Accept the fact that we have to treat almost anybody as a volunteer.
Peter Drucker
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It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.
Aesop
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Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking.
George Eliot
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Many children make up, or begin to make up, imaginary languages. I have been at it since I could write.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it’s there complete in the mind, if only at the back.
Virginia Woolf