Category: writer
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We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing.
Marcel Proust
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The real lover of cats is one who demands a clearer adjustment to the universe than ordinary household platitudes provide; one who refuses to swallow the sentimental notion that all good people love dogs, children, and horses while all bad people dislike and are disliked by such.
H. P. Lovecraft
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An egotist is a person of low taste – more interested in himself than in me.
Ambrose Bierce
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The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
Rudyard Kipling
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Whenever a high-profile leader dies, people immediately attempt to summarize that person’s life in a sentence. Often, critics and commentators get caught up looking at the leader’s style, or which political or philosophical camp they represented.
John C. Maxwell
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Working with our military community has been the biggest honor of my life.
Michelle Obama
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When you’re wounded and left on Afghanistan’s plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.
Rudyard Kipling
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I have a collective sense of suffering.
Alice Walker