Category: writer
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People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.
John C. Maxwell
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Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.
George Orwell
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Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves.
Honore de Balzac
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A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
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I think of prayer as a spiritual lifeline back to where I most want to be.
Marianne Williamson
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Fiction is such a world of freedom, it’s wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.
Alice Walker
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Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery’s shadow or reflection: the fact that you don’t merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.
C. S. Lewis
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Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man’s head.
Ambrose Bierce
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To me, constructive criticism is when people take ownership of their ideas. That’s why I don’t listen to anything that’s anonymous. But it’s hard; when there’s something hurtful out there, I still want to read it over and over and memorize it and explain my point of view to the person.
Brene Brown
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Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand.
Mark Twain