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I think the reason working-class people don't write books is because they are encouraged to believe that only certain people are permitted to write books. — Len Deighton
So with truth - there is a certain moment when one can say, this is the truth and here I put a dot, a stop,… — A B Yehoshua
In order to have the stuff of a tyrant, a certain mental derangement is necessary. — Emile M. Cioran
Certain words now in our knowledge we will not use again, and we will never forget them. We need them. Like the back of the… — W S Merwin
When you're really caught up in writing a poem, it can be a form of prayer. I'm not very good at praying, but what I… — Denise Levertov
I mean, I think about it, but I don't design my record to get a certain public response. — Liz Phair
There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction. — Edgar Allan Poe
Life is filled with tests, one after another, and if you don't recognize them, you are certain to fail the most important ones. — Brian Herbert
It is not indeed certain, that the most refined caution will find a proper time for bringing a man to the knowledge of his own… — Samuel Johnson
Jim Jarmusch: Poets are always ahead of things in a certain way, their sense of language and their vision. — Jim Jarmusch
He [Mitt Romney] didn't pay taxes for 10 years! Now, do I know that that's true? Well, I'm not certain, but obviously he can't release… — Harry Reid
These attacks prove one thing for certain: the liberal establishment is desperate to keep leaders like me out of office, and we are sure to… — Rand Paul
The first rule in politics is that there are no rules, at least not in the sense of inevitable defeats or inevitable victories. If you… — Tony Blair
There are certain standards, like the protection of minorities and the improvement in their lives that have to be improved now. — Martti Ahtisaari
When I went back home, I was constantly being reminded, I'm an African woman, and so there are certain things I shouldn't do, certain ambitions… — Wangari Maathai
I do outlines when I'm writing with someone, but they also need to have a certain amount of freedom — Anne McCaffrey
If you're going to establish a certain level of unreality than you have to deal with it — Bill Sienkiewicz
There's no difference between lyrics and poetry. Words are words. The only difference is the people who are in academic positions and call themselves poets… — Van Morrison
The two Christians met on the way many people who were going to their towns, women and men, with a firebrand in the hand, [and]… — Christopher Columbus
It was about then [1920] that I wrote a line which certain people will not let me forget: "She was a faded but still lovely… — F. Scott Fitzgerald

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