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8803 Writer Quotes

On all the peaks lies peace.
Lies Peace Peaks Rest
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One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

Inspired Instructed Only Society
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A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss.

Affectionate Answer Correct Kiss
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For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.

Fail Ideas Just Save
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The right man is the one who seizes the moment.

Man Moment Right Right Man
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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Be Prepared Belongs Changes He
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It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.

Better Deceive Deceived Friends
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No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.

How Knew Misunderstood Much
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The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.

About Cannot Fence Forever
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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
Decide Given Time Us
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A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
Safe Untrue Worlds Fairyland
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So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their ending!

After Dragons Ending Even
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Courage is found in unlikely places.
Courage Found Places Unlikely
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A friend of mine tells that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.

Friend Mine Shorthand Talk
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Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.

Corner Gate May New
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A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid.

Box Golden Hid Hinges
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Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.

Affairs Anger Meddle Quick
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I'm the kind of writer that people think other people are reading

Kind Other People Reading
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Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.

Both Counsel Elves Go
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If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

Above Cheer Food Gold
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Africa has no future.
Africa Future NoFuture
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I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not.

Know Paragraph Piece Read
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It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

Calculations Does Dragon Him
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'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.'

About He I Wish Know
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It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.

Finish Job Longest Never
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My publisher, who was so good as a taster and editor, when she became a writer, lo and behold, it was all this feminine tosh.

Became Behold Editor Feminine
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I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

Deserve Half Know Less
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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

Farewell He Road Says
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Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

Cannot Deal Death Deserve
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The longer I live the more convinced I become that one of the greatest honors we can confer on other people is to see them as they are, to recognize not only that they exist, but that they exist in specifi

Become Convinced Exist Greatest
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A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen.
Hen Me Pen Beak
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My life is short. I can't listen to banality.

Life LifeIsShort Listen MyLife
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If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.

About Going Just Much
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In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet.

Am Chained England English
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An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.

Autobiography Distort Facts Fiction
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If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.

Ever Frauds Go Intellectual
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I've never abandoned the novel.
Abandoned Never Novel
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Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.

Art Biography Done Great
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I had no student friends to talk to about literature. My tutor was a really nice man, very charming - but he had no literary judgment

About Charming Friends Had
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I really wasn't equipped to be a writer when I left Oxford. But then I set out to learn. I've always had the highest regard for the craft. I've always felt it was work.

Always Craft Equipped Felt
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It's very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing... if you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you've got it half-made. I mean intellectually.

About Attractive Begin Being
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To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say 'my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn't matter.'

Converted Culture Destroy Does
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Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.

Anyone Colonial Complex Knows
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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.

Dead Generate He Hostility
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Writers should provoke disagreement.

Disagreement Provoke Should Writers
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Africans need to be kicked, that's the only thing they understand.

African Kicked Need Only
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I don't feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
Authority Feel ICan Many
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The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.

Aspect British City Council
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I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.

Ancestry Beyond Blurred Cannot
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In England people are very proud of being very stupid.

Being England People Proud
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