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Reread, rewrite, reread, rewrite. If it still doesn't work, throw it away. It's a nice feeling, and you don't want to be cluttered with the… — Helen Dunmore
I have also led you astray by talking of technique as if it were something that could be separated from the rest of the story.… — Flannery O'Connor
Writing is communication, not self-expression. Nobody in this world wants to read your diary except your mother. — Richard Peck
A writer's life is so hazardous that anything he does is bad for him. Anything that happens to him is bad: failure's bad, success is… — E L Doctorow
So in writing, there is always a right word, and every other than that is wrong. There is no beauty in words except in their… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The McCarthy period came along...and many of the other scientists who had been working on these same lines gave up. Probably saying "Why should I… — Linus Pauling
Photography has not changed since its origin except in its technical aspects, which for me are not important. — Henri Cartier-Bresson
It may be thought justifiable to require tests on animals of potentially life-saving drugs, but the same kinds of tests are used for products like… — Peter Singer
Before I was born my mother was in great agony of spirit and in a tragic situation. She could take no food except iced oysters… — Isadora Duncan
Teachers may think they are stuffing minds, but all they are ever affecting is the memory. Nothing can ever be forced into anyone's mind except… — Mortimer Adler
Name me any liquid except our own blood that flows more intimately and incessantly through the labyrinth of symbols we have conceived to make our… — Clifton Fadiman
The Church was redeemed at the price of Christ's blood. Jew or Greek, it makes no difference; but if he has believed, he must circumcise… — Ambrose
Moreover, from the time when He said, 'Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of… — Saint Augustine
The custom of Mother Church in baptizing infants is certainly not to be scorned, nor is it to be regarded in any way as superfluous,… — Saint Augustine
No one is sanctified except him who is united to the Church. — Prosper of Aquitaine
The holy universal Church teaches that it is not possible to worship God truly except in Her and asserts that all who are outside of… — Pope Gregory I
I am pleased that I am able to stand here today and say with a pure heart and meaningful heart that I am against the… — Mamie Till
It is said to be a deterrent. I cannot agree....I do not now believe that any one of the hundreds of executions I carried out… — Albert Pierrepoint
And to you taxpayers out there, let me say this: Make sure you file your tax return on time! And remember that, even though income… — Dave Barry
Few of us ever test our powers of deduction, except when filling out an income tax form — Laurence J. Peter

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