Category: writer
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How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!
Jane Austen
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You can stroke people with words.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man’s virtues the means of deceiving him.
Samuel Johnson
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We are not without empathetic terror when we open Pascal’s ‘Pensees’ and read, ‘I am the great silent spaces between worlds.’
Carl Sagan
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Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.
William Shakespeare
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There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.
Edgar Allan Poe
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The man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Novels are not about expressing yourself, they’re about something beautiful, funny, clever and organic. Self-expression? Go and ring a bell in a yard if you want to express yourself.
Zadie Smith
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Horrors, I believe, should be original – the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influence.
H. P. Lovecraft
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The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.
Voltaire