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8803 Writer Quotes

Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.

Remorse Prosperity Bitter Adversity
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Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

Falsehood Infinity Combinations Truth
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However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.

Great Talent Act Writing
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Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.

Man Born Free Chains
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No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

Man Natural Authority Fellow
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Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.

Happiness Good Account Cook
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What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

Wisdom Find Greater Kindness
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Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

Virtue State War Live
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Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.

Insults Arguments Employed Wrong
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We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.

Born Speak Life Man
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The world isn't a sad place, it's just big

World Sad Place Big
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Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

Art Attracts Reveals Secret
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The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

Truth Terror Moral Idea
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It’s not where you take things from – it’s where you take them to

Where Take Things
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Poetry is a game of loser-take-all.

Poetry Game Loser
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What is your greatest ambition in life?' 'To become immortal... and then die.

Greatest Ambition Life Die
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A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.

Story Beginning End Order
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Life begins on the other side of despair.

Life Begins Other side Despair
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Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.

Life Moment Lose Eternal
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A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

Lost Battle Thinks
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Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

Man Free World Responsible
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We must act out passion before we can feel it.

We Act Passion Feel
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We do not judge the people we love.

We Judge People Love
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Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.

Words Treacherous Powerful Think
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If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.

Literature Worth Hour Trouble
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Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

Man Responsible Nature Choices
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Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.

Politics Science Demonstrate Wrong
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Commitment is an act, not a word.
Commitment Act Word
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There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.

Day Left Dawn Dusk
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You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.

Afraid Son Honest Citizen
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Whatever is powerful to you can be translated into something which will matter to somebody that you will never know.

Powerful You Matter Somebody
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To me, life, for all its privations, is a luminous thing. You have to risk it.

Life Privations Thing Risk
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Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places.

Professionalism Experience Accomplish Access
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Life gives you enough hard knocks so it's unlikely you'll stay that sure of yourself.

Life Hard knocks Sure Yourself
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Many people feel their outer self isn't the whole self.

People Feel Self Whole
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If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you.

Write Read Fiction Change
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I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness.

Write Group Change Consciousness
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I believe in communication; books communicate ideas and make bridges between people.

Believe Communication Ideas People
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Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening.

Everything Writing Language Listening
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If we make anything that lasts, it outlives us.

We Make Lasts Outlives
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don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility.

Understand People Art Mind
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Creative work is incredibly difficult, and that is where the tests lie.

Creative Work Difficult Tests
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Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.

Art Saved Depression Innocence
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The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the Titanic you go down.

Truth Love Life Heart
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What you risk reveals what you value.
What Risk Reveals Value
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To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language.

Create Past Fiction Language
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Writers have to have a knack for listening. I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by the voices I create.

Writers Listening Voices Create
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Organized religion is a very bad way of passing on spiritual values because it becomes so corrupted with political and repressive agendas which don't help anybody to develop their spirituality.

Religion Spiritual Values Corrupted
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Love is the one thing stronger than desire and the only proper reason to resist temptation.

Love Desire Reason Temptation
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do it from the heart or not at all.

Do Heart
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