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It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
Author: Mark Twain
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Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it.
Author: Moses Hadas
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From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
Author: Groucho Marx
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The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
Author: Mark Twain
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Avarice, envy, pride. Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of all on Fire.
Author: Dante Alighieri
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This life's dim windows of the soul. Distorts the heavens from pole to pole. And leads you to believe a lie when you see with, not through, the eye.
Author: William Blake
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'Tis an old saying, the Devil lurks behind the cross. All is not gold that glitters. From the tail of the plough, Bamba was made King of Spain; and from his silks and riches was Rodrigo cast to be devoured by the snakes.
Author: Miguel de Cervantes
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Oh, thou hast a damnable iteration, and art indeed able to corrupt a saint. Thou hast done much harm upon me Hal, God forgive thee for it. Before I knew thee Hal, I knew nothing, and now am I, if a man should speak truly, little better than one of the wicked.
Author: William Shakespeare
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If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
Author: Henry David Thoreau
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Do not trust the horse, Trojans! Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks, even though they bring gifts.
Author: Virgil
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Oh you who are born of the blood of the gods, Trojan son of Anchises, easy is the descent to hell; the door of dark Dis stands open day and night. But to retrace your steps and come out to the air above, that is work, that is labor!
Author: Virgil
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'That is indisputable,' was the answer, 'but in this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.'
Author: Francois Voltaire
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A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
Author: Italo Calvino
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All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.
Author: Albert Camus
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I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog.
Author: Sandra Cisneros
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Writing is manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe.
Author: John Gregory Dunne
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Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie.
Author: John LeCarre
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Rice Krispies happens to be one of my favorite junk foods, just as I regard Michener as superior among junk writers.
Author: Christopher Lehmann
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The fact that writers will go through so much to remain writers says something, perhaps everything. It would be far easier (and nearly always more profitable) to become a real estate agent.
Author: Maria Lenhart
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We breathe, we think, we conceive of our lives as narratives.
Author: Christopher Lehmann
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All autobiography is self-indulgent.
Author: Daphne Du Maurier
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If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.
Author: Anais Nin
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If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes.
Author: Mickey Spillane
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Thurber did not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote the way a child skips rope, the way a mouse waltzes.
Author: E. B. White
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Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.
Author: William Wordsworth
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