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8803 Writer Quotes

Part of life is learning what to be ashamed of and what to be proud of.

Life Learning what Ashamed of Proud of
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Literature is the only access to truth we have on this planet.

Literature Only access The truth This planet
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There is simply no limit to the tyrannical snobbery that otherwise decent people can descend into when it comes to music.

No limit Tyrannical snobbery Decent people Can descend
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Little girls grow up to be women, little boys grow up to be little boys.

Little girls Grow up Be women Boys
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Read it wisely, Little One, for the power of ignorance is great.

It wisely Little one The power Ignorance
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Nature admits no hierarchy of beauty or usefulness or importance.

Nature admits No hierarchy Beauty Usefulness
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Just as it is the love of money that is the root of all evil, it is the belief in shamefulness that is the root of all misery.

Love Money The root All evil
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All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.

Religions Fear Cleverness Few
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Our true passions are selfish.

Our True Passion Selfish
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There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.

Styles Beauty Visions Happiness
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One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
One Acquire Solitude Character
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A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

Small degree Hope Cause Love
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Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.

Faith Fool Selfishness Life
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The only way of touching a heart is to wound it

Way Touching Heart Wound
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The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.

Pleasures Love Proportion Fears
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Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will

Love Comes Independently Will
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What is really beautiful must always be true.

What Beautiful True
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Old age is nothing but the absence of madness, the loss of illusion and passion.

Old age Absence Illusion Passion
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I love her beauty, but I fear her mind

Love Beauty Fear Mind
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Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it

Pleasure Spoiled Describing
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What is the use of a love that makes one yawn? One might as well take to religion.

Use Love Religion
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Love is a beautiful flower, but we must be brave enough to pick her up from the edge of a precipice.

Love Beautiful Brave Edge
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Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion

Women Eagerly Lookout Emotion
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Friendship has its illusions no less than love.

Friendship Illusions Love
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People happy in love have an air of intensity.

People Happy Love Intensity
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Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.

Life Short Time Waste
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Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.

Misfortunes Life Wrong notions Things
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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

Shepherd Persuade Sheep Interests
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And if you love only yourself, you will serve only yourself. And you will have only yourself.

Love Yourself Serve Only
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If you're injecting fear into other people, then you're trying to kill their minds. You're trying to get them to stop thinking.

Fear People Minds Thinking
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The pen is mightier than the sword, if you shoot that pen out of a gun

Pen Mightier Sword Gun
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I love the earth. If you ask me it's the greatest planet in the world.

Love Earth Planet World
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Life is an improvisation. You have no idea what's going to happen next and you are mostly just making things up as you go along.

Life Improvisation Idea Go along
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Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots.

Himor Lubricant Helps Bad spots
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Civilization itself . . . can easily be swept aside when mob passions are aroused.

Civilization Easily Mob passions Aroused
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Ideas have consequences, and totally erroneous ideas are likely to have destructive consequences.

Ideas Consequences Erroneous Destructive
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Radio is the theater of the mind; television is the theater of the mindless

Radio Theater Mind Television
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One of the nice things about problems is that a good many of them do not exist except in our imaginations.

Nice things Problems Exist Imaginations
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If we do not know what humor is, that may be because we do not know what humankind is.

We Know Humor Humankind
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We will take almost any kind of criticism except the observation that we have no sense of humor.

We Kind Criticism Humor
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We need books...because we are all, in the private kingdoms of our hearts, desperate for the company of a wise, true friend.

We Books Hearts Wise
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The single biggest reason I got my stories taken in various literary magazines - and I want to stress this - is because I refused to give up. Period.

Reason Magazines Refused Give up
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Time is a track that loops back on itself, where memories rattle like tin trains. How had I been spending my days, but in the whirl of memories?

Time Memories Spending Days
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All language is an aspiration to music.

Language Aspiration Music
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Most forms of rage, after all, are only sloppy cloaks for grief.

Form Rage Cloaks Grief
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writing is about developing the capacity to expose yourself on the page, if not your life story at the very least your prevailing anxieties and the people who caused them.

Writing Developing Expose Life story
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don’t dream at night, I dream at day, I dream all day; I’m dreaming for a living.

Dream Night All day Living
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I’m not really interested in making money. That’s always come as the result of success, but it’s not been my goal, and I’ve had a tough time proving that to people.

Money Result Success Goal
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All good ideas start out as bad ideas, that’s why it takes so long.

Good Ideas Why Long
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Even though I get older, what I do never gets old, and that's what I think keeps me hungry.
Older Never Think Hungry
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