Category: writer
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I just can’t get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people’s minds. I can’t live my life like that. And it’s just anathema to being a writer. It’s not healthy.
Zadie Smith
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I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.
Kurt Vonnegut
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The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive.
Fran Lebowitz
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Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Napoleon Hill
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Part of my ancestry is Cherokee. And in that tradition, you become an adult when you’re 52.
Alice Walker
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Whenever you think you can or think you can’t, either way you are right. (Henry Ford)
Rhonda Byrne
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People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they’ll have good voice boxes in case there’s ever anything really meaningful to say.
Kurt Vonnegut
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There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.
Charles Bukowski
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Fear follows crime and is its punishment.
Voltaire
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It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories, his reason, and be able to recognize the good in the bad, the bad in the worst, and so grow gently old down all the unchanging days, and die one day like any other day, only shorter.
Samuel Beckett