Category: writer
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Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
Samuel Johnson
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I have concluded that Literature is no proper pursuit for a gentleman and that Writing ought never to be consider’d but as an elegant Accomplishment to be indulg’d in with infrequency and Discrimination.
H. P. Lovecraft
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Serious illness doesn’t bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.
Albert Schweitzer
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Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father’s head. It taught me about women defending themselves and not collapsing in a heap.
Alice Walker
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Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Few people have the imagination for reality.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
J. K. Rowling
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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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You get enough people agreeing in consciousness that Mexico is a dangerous place, and that dangerous thought will make it so.
Marianne Williamson