Category: writer
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Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.
James Baldwin
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Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.
Helen Keller
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Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.
William Shakespeare
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When I think of the books I love, there’s always a little laughter in the dark.
Zadie Smith
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I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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You can’t go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.
Fran Lebowitz
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The year was 2081, and everyone was finally equal.
Kurt Vonnegut
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If you’re holding out for universal popularity, I’m afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.
J. K. Rowling
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One thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
Albert Schweitzer
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Inability to make decisions is one of the principal reasons executives fail. Deficiency in decision-making ranks much higher than lack of specific knowledge or technical know-how as an indicator of leadership failure.
John C. Maxwell