Category: writer
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It’s the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.
Voltaire
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Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.
John Steinbeck
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Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you.
Zadie Smith
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It is very nearly impossible… to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
James Baldwin
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Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
Ambrose Bierce
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I always tell young girls, surround yourself with goodness. I learned early on how to get the haters out of my life.
Michelle Obama
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For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life. The writing has been really a byproduct of that.
Alice Walker
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When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe