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I think that the dying pray at the last not please but thank you, as a guest thanks his host at the door. Falling from… — Annie Dillard
Such things and deeds as are not written down are covered with darkness, and given over to the sepulchre of oblivion. — Ivan Bunin
I turn sentences around. That's my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look at it and I turn… — Philip Roth
It is worth mentioning, for future reference, that the creative power which bubbles so pleasantly in beginning a new book quiets down after a time,… — Virginia Woolf
Characters must not brood too long. They must not waste time running up and down ladders in their own insides. — E. M. Forster
Cross out as many adjectives and adverbs as you can. ... It is comprehensible when I write: "The man sat on the grass," because it… — Anton Chekhov
They believe that if they do get published, a wonderful new life is in store. It will turn out that deep down they are really… — Anne Lamott
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
I never hesitate to tell a man that I am bullish or bearish. But I do not tell people to buy or sell any particular… — Jesse Lauriston Livermore
If you can't sleep at night because of your stock market position, then you have gone too far. If this is the case, then sell… — Jesse Lauriston Livermore
I was getting dressed and a peeping tom looked in the window, took a look and pulled down the shade. — Joan Rivers
I have lovely memories of Los Angeles in the 1930s. I came down to live with my mother's cousin and they invited me to come… — Beverly Cleary
We have to have faith in ourselves. I have never met a woman who, deep down in her core, really believes she has great legs.… — Cynthia Heimel
If it is a crime to love the South, its cause and its President, then I am a criminal. I would rather lie down in… — Belle Boyd
It's the closest to death I have ever been. The chemotherapy takes you as far down into hell as you've ever, ever been. — Melissa Etheridge
Being shelled is the main work of an infantry soldier, which no one talks about. Everyone has his own way of going about it. In… — Louis Simpson
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
The cries of the wounded had much diminished now, and as we staggered down the road, the reason was only too apparent, for the water… — Edwin Campion Vaughan
At 8 o'clock in the morning a dense throng of workers - almost 10,000 - assembled in the square, which the police had already occupied… — Paul Frolich
UNICEF is successfully giving children and young people all over the world opportunities and hope. Just like the ones we met on the Long Way… — Ewan McGregor

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