Category: writer
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When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong.
Paulo Coelho
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Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.
Rabindranath Tagore
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When I use my strength in the service of my vision it makes no difference whether or not I am afraid.
Audre Lorde
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Character develops itself in the stream of life.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.
Albert Camus
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When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
Mark Twain
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Until you walk a mile in another man’s moccasins you can’t imagine the smell.
Robert Byrne
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I’ve spoken in every state in the union, meeting and hugging the people who later bought my books. I spoke to anybody who wanted to hear me, including 1,000 nuns who could pay me only with homemade bread.
Leo Buscaglia
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If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics – a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage – surely that proves that you are in the right?
George Orwell