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8803 Writer Quotes

Stop taking things personally.

Stop Things Personally
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I’ve had a lot of success, I’ve had failures, so I learn from the failure.

Lot Success Failures Learn
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Push your limit to the absolute extreme.

Push Your Limit Existence
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The minute you start compromising for the sake of massaging somebody’s ego, that’s it, game over.

Compromising Ego Game
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Best to start at the bottom & gradually climb up. It’s much more fun, too.

Best Bottom Climb up Fun
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Put the emotion in the food, because it’s so much more rewarding down the line.

Emotion Food Rewarding
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The secret is to make sure the business is running to perfection, with or without me.

Secret Business Perfection
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Write something, even if it's just a suicide note.

Write Something Suicide Note
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The unfed mind devours itself.

Unfed Mind Devours
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The important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.

Important Object Love Emotion
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I’m not sentimental about anything. Life flows by, and you flow with it or you don’t. Move on and move out.

Sentimental Life Flow Move on
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That my plans have lately gone somewhat awry is the sort of risk one must take if life is to be superb.

Plans Risk Life Superb
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Sexual revelation in literature, must be tactful and must serve plot

Revelation Literature Tactful Plot
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It is of no consequence what others think of you. What matters is what you think of them. That is how you live your life.

Consequence Think Live Life
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To turn life into words is to make life yours to do with as you please, instead of the other way round

Life Words Make Please
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Always beware of the fact, that the only thing hindering an all out revolution is your fear of losing the scraps they throw at you.

Fact Hindering Revolution Fear
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How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself

Books Worlds Ignorance Cruel
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Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.

Time Friends Succeeds Die
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It is not enough merely to win; others must lose.

Enough Win Lose
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Write what you know will always be excellent advice for those who ought not to write at all. Write what you think, what you imagine, what you suspect!

Write Advice Think Imagine
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The idea of a good society is something you do not need a religion and eternal punishment to buttress; you need a religion if you are terrified of death.

Society Religion Need Death
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A writer must always tell the truth (unless he's a journalist)

Writer Truth Journalist
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Love is a fan club with only two fans.

Love Fan Club
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History is idle gossip about a happening whose truth is lost the instant it has taken place.

History Gossip Truth Lost
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In fact, life itself is a contradiction if only because birth is the direct cause, in every single case, of death

Life Contradiction Birth Cause
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Nothing that ever was changes. Yet nothing that is can ever be the same as what went before.

Nothing Changes Same Before
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No one can ever love us quite so much as we love ourselves.
No one Love We Ourselves
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The rhetoric of hate is often most effective when couched in the idiom of love.

Rhetoric Hate Idiom Love
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Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.

Style You Want Giving
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In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.

Writing Problems How Narrative
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You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.

Forget Fruits Belong Land
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Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Souls Faith Great Individuals
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The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.

Children Profession Waste Time
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Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.

Fame Breath People Unwholesome
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We do not know what is really good or bad fortune

We Know Good Bad
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Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Patience Bitter Fruit Sweet
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When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Afflication Happens You Defeat
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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Difficult Nobly Earning Living
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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

People Know Talkers Little
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Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.

Force Obedience Legitimate Powers
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The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
World Reality Limits Imagination
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A feeble body weakens the mind.

Feeble Body Weakens Mind
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Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Childhood Slep Reason
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Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it.

Man Right Risk Life
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We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.

Weak Foolish Gift Education
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Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.

Gratitude Duty Right Expect
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Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.

Nations People Youth Older
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Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

Nature Never Deceives Ourselves
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Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.

Course Opposite Custom
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Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

Silence Sadness Image Death
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