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Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.
Author: Walter Bagehot
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The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.
Author: Robert Benchley
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Every writing career starts as a personal quest for sainthood, for self-betterment. Sooner or later, and as a rule quite soon, a man discovers that his pen accomplishes a lot more than his soul.
Author: Joseph Brodsky
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Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come.
Author: Montesquieu
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To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism, to steal ideas from many is research.
Author: Anonymous
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Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
Author: Mortimer J. Adler
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.
Author: Gaston Bachelard
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When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.
Author: Gracie Allen
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There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life.
Author: Frederika Bremer
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I must claim the quoter's privilege of giving only as much of the text as will suit my purpose, said Tan-Chun. If I told you how it went on, I should end up by contradicting myself!
Author: Cao Xueqin
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Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.
Author: E. M. Cioran
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Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.
Author: Dr. Emmit Fox
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Quotes from Mao, Castro, and Che Guevara... are as germane to our highly technological, computerized society as a stagecoach on a jet runway at Kennedy airport.
Author: Saul Alinsky
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No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
Author: Henry Brooks Adams
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One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
Author: Amos Bronson Alcott
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A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
Author: Burt Bacharach
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Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, and always count their change when it is handed to them.
Author: Catherine Drinker Bowen
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People want you to be a crazy, out-of-control teen brat. They want you miserable, just like them. They don't want heroes; what they want is to see you fall.
Author: Leonardo Dicaprio
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There are times when I think that the ideal library is composed solely of reference books. They are like understanding friends-always ready to change the subject when you have had enough of this or that.
Author: J. Donald Adams
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If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
Author: Epictetus
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The words of the world want to make sentences.
Author: Gaston Bachelard
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In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.
Author: Mortimer J. Adler
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Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends.
Author: Dawn Adams
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The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.
Author: Bible
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By words the mind is winged.
Author: Aristophanes
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Yes and No are very short words to say, but we should think for some length of time before saying them.
Author: Unknown
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