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This element of surprise or mystery - the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called - is of great importance in a plot.… — E. M. Forster
There must be a balance of honesty and charity in the workshop. Everyone must be aware of a fellow human being behind the work being… — Hilma Wolitzer
There ought to be a man with a hammer behind the door of every happy man. — Anton Chekhov
You try to sit down at approximately the same time every day. This is how you train your unconscious to kick in for you creatively.… — Anne Lamott
Yes, but I - you know, it's been such a long time, I'm sure that I've got cousins and uncles that I've never met before,… — Rafael Palmeiro
My message behind this album was finding the beauty in imperfection. — Beyonce Knowles
If your children want to alter society, listen to their reasons and the idealism behind them. Don't crush them with some clever remark straight away. — Prince Charles
General Lee, this is no place for you. These men behind you are Georgians and Virginians. They have never failed you and will not fail… — John Brown Gordon
In any case, the bayonet isn't as important as it used to be. It's more usual now to go into the attack with hand-grenades and… — Erich Maria Remarque
Judging from the way they sat and goggled at the drag on the stage it was obvious that they were indulging in delightful fantasies that… — Eric Hiscock
Food Throwers: Begun usually by estranged couples, once this victual flinging starts, everyone will do it...Should your dinner party have become an out of control… — J P Donleavy
Every year tens of thousands of animals suffer and die in laboratory tests of cosmetics and household products...despite the fact that the test results do… — Woody Harrelson
My goal in life is to leave behind a safe and healthy world for our children. Before I leave this world, I want to be… — Unknown Author
It's harder to end a war than begin one. Indeed, everything that American troops have done in Iraq -- all the fighting and all the… — Barack Obama
Behind every stock is a company. Find out what it's doing. — Peter Lynch
I'm a strong believer in telling stories through a limited but very tight third person point of view. I have used other techniques during my… — George R. R. Martin
Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once… — Catherine Drinker Bowen
For after all, what is there behind, except money? Money for the right kind of education, money for influential friends, money for leisure and peace… — George Orwell
Acutely aware of the poverty of my means, language became obstacle. At every page I thought, 'That's not it.' So I began again with other… — Elie Wiesel
To finish is a sadness to a writer - a little death. He puts the last word down and it is done. But it isn't… — John Steinbeck
I wrote much because I was paid little. I had no great desire to leave a literary name behind me. — Anthony Burgess
Good writers are visible just behind their words. — William Zinsser
It's not what you take when you leave this world behind you. It's what you leave behind you when you go. — Randy Travis
If present trends continue, our country may soon find itself far behind many other nations in both science and technology nations where, if you inform… — Martin Gardner
When you photograph a face . . .you photograph the soul behind it. — Jean-Luc Godard

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