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8803 Writer Quotes

Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
Bad Hard Hard Work Health
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It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.

Along Friend Good Good Writer
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One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.

Enemy Most Things Time-Consuming
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When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.

About Beyond Bury Child
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Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.

Luck Men Mention Presence
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I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.

About Bright Bright Future Feel
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The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.
Become Before Eighteen Father
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Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.

Act Faith Grammar Trick
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I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.

Chickens Discouraging Know Literature
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A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy.

Bean Day Gets He
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The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people.

Always Been Highly Most
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The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.

Childhood Doorway Full Met
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The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it.

Avoid Change Common Instinctively
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Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.

About Absolutely American Believes
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We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.

Even Gives Grapes Joy
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English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.

Across Education English Getting
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It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.

Acquainted Club Easier He
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The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative.

Arms Debates Disarmament Imperative
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A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.

Farmer Good Handy Less
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The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.

Acceptance Adjustment Age Atom
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True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

Class Country Discover High
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We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

Be Careful Careful Must Pretend
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The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake.

Art Arts Badly Bearable
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Any man can call time out, but no man can say how long the time out will be.

Any Call How Long
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Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.

Afterwards Both Cleaning Exhaustion
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If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

Anything Blind Job Kingdom
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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

Before Beware Finds Hard
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We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
Cheap Could Earth Saved
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It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead.
Back Blessing Brought Dead
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People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.

About Church Come Course
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Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.

Anything Bitter Could Disappointment
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The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.

Big Biggest Perhaps Place
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If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy.

Enemy Friend Nature Need
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I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.

Center Close Edge Going
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Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?

Bound Freedom Living More
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Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia.

Again Beings Cancer Communities
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I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.
Gives Ours Planet Poor
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I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.

Anybody Around Different Earth
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To whom it may concern: It is springtime. It is late afternoon.

Afternoon Concern Late May
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People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say.

About Anything Boxes Case
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I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.

Brain Crowning Evolution Far
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The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn't really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: he wasn't going to compose Beethoven's Fifth.

About Anyway Beethoven Compose
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Back in my days as a chemistry student, I used to be quite a technocrat. I was firmly convinced that scientists would have cornered God and photographed Him in color by 1951.

Back Chemistry Color Convinced
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Younger scientists are extremely sensitive to the moral implications of all they do.
Extremely Implications Moral Scientists
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When I'm being funny, I try not to offend. I don't think much of what I've done has been in really ghastly taste. I don't think I have embarrassed many people or distressed them.

Been Being Being Funny Distressed
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I am from a family of artists. Here I am, making a living in the arts. It has not been a rebellion. It's as though I had taken over the family Esso station.

Am Artists Arts Been
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I was a chemistry major, but I'm always winding up as a teacher in English departments, so I've brought scientific thinking to literature. There's been very little gratitude for this.

Always Been Brought Chemistry
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During most of my freelancing, I made what I would have made in charge of the cafeteria at a pretty good junior-high school.

Charge Good Made Most
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I don't plot my books rigidly, follow a preconceived structure. A novel mustn't be a closed system - it's a quest.

Books Closed Follow Novel
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People need good lies. There are too many bad ones.
Bad Bad Ones Good Lies
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