Cut Quotes
3475 Cut quotes by 2391 unique authors
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Inexperienced fiction and creative nonfiction writers are often told to show, not tell - to write scenes, dramatize, cut exposition, cut summary - but it…
— Laurie Alberts
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No one writes a story like Lydia Davis. In the years since she began publishing her lyrical, extremely short fiction, she has quietly become one…
— Jonathan Messinger
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You know the head's where everything is at, the brain, eyes, mouth. That's the person. I remember being told as a kid, you cut off…
— Edmund Kemper
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You will be surprised to learn how some very knowing people have misunderstood Plotto. On glancing at it, some of the intelligentia have jumped at…
— William Wallace Cook
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I never said that. The fact is we are going to open over hundreds of stores this year and next and increase employment by over…
— John Schnatter
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I do not want to father a flock, to be the fetish of fools and fanatics or the founder of a faith whose followers are…
— Aleister Crowley
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If you have a sense that anyone is draining your energy, mentally cut the etheric psychic cord between you and the other person. Be willing…
— Doreen Virtue
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Write with abandon and no constraints for first draft. Cut brutally and save in separate files on second draft. Add conflict; don't be afraid to…
— Francesca Lia Block
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I always get so overwhelmed trying to do everything perfectly. I can't do a job and not put everything I have into it. I need…
— Nic Sheff
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Somewhere somebody must have some sense. Men must see that force begets force, hate begets hate, toughness begets toughness. And it is all a descending…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The Saga of Dharmapuri is one of the great works of modern Indian literature. (...) Set against Vijayan's heroic and scatological Candide -- originally written…
— David Selbourne
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I'm out there doing the best that I can, My lip is cut and I'm still playing.
— Miles Davis
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Sometimes we just have to cut off the dead branches in our life. Sometimes that's the only way we can keep the tree alive. It's…
— Nicole Williams
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Art is a reflection on life. Life isn’t something we can cut and fix. It’s always in a state of flux.
— El Anatsui
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Let us be clear about our choice. When we raise taxes on the wealthiest Americans, no one dies. When we cut Social Security and Medicare,…
— Unknown Author
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Everybody wants to be pretty because that's what they've been told will make them feel good even though there's no proof that people who are…
— Bryan Kest
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You experience that you are cut off by being in your mind, and there is a quality that is starving in an individual that is…
— Ram Dass
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Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to burn his ships and cut all sources of retreat.
— Napoleon Hill
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If your ancestors cut down all the trees, it’s not your fault, but you still don’t live in a forest.
— Unknown Author
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We pretend with a spiritual life we don't live, a peace we don't experience and a holiness and commitment we don't possess. ... We will…
— K.P. Yohannan
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The Republicans suddenly are very concerned about people losing their health coverage! I would believe that they were worried about our well-being if a) they…
— Andy Borowitz
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Cut brambles long enough, Sprout after sprout, And the lotus will bloom Of its own accord: Already waiting in the clearing, The single image of…
— Sun Bu'er
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A genuine act of kindness makes me feel like I really am where you cut underneath anything external, and you become what a human being…
— Catherine Ryan Hyde
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There is something about a well-fitted modern jacket that feels like armor. If it's cut well, it adds a dose of cool to anything you…
— Stacy London
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When you release the wrongdoer from the wrong, you cut a malignant tumor out of your inner life. You set a prisoner free, but you…
— Lewis B. Smedes
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