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The moment you ascribe who you are right now to what happened yesterday, you have written off your life. — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
I don't mind anything that's written about me, as long as it's not true. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
The best advice I can give you: Look unto Jesus, beholding his beauty in the written word. — John Newton Copy Share Image
I don't read books regularly, because I'm always writing them. I've written 30 books, thousands of pages. — Ferran Adria Copy Share Image
I hadn't written a love story before and I hadn't written a novel with a happy ending before. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I have been somebody who has not written a great deal about the truth of my family's life. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
All music written by a Christian should be as integrated as everything else done by a Christian. — Larry Norman Copy Share Image
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Let us never accept the point of view that mysteries are written by hacks. The poorest of us shed our blood over… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
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I am like a doctor. I have written a prescription to help the patient. If the patient doesn't want all the pills… — Javier Perez de Cuellar Copy Share Image
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Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then we might… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
The movie Fifty Shades of Grey is considerably better written than the book. It is also sort of classy-looking, in a generic,… — Lisa Schwarzbaum Copy Share Image
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