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I did precisely the wrong thing. The cotton showed me a loss and I kept it. The wheat showed me a profit and I sold… — Jesse Lauriston Livermore
Narcissus does not fall in love with his reflection because it is beautiful, but because it is his. If it were his beauty that enthralled… — Wystan Hugh Auden
I'm a religious man. I am Jewish but I believe in all religions. I believe in God and see him as an old man with… — Uri Geller
All the time. A few months ago I came really close to losing it, I was getting really paranoid. And then I started a new… — Robert Pattinson
I have been called Taylor Lautner a few time which I'm quite happy about. You only have to look at us to see how funny… — Robert Pattinson
Over the past few days I have been fighting off a virus that has affected the majority of my band and crew. — Unknown Author
I don't really have a gimmick or a 'thing.' I'm one of the few artists who gets to be himself every day. — Drake
You ever tasted a smell? It's a very strange feeling. I've done it quite a few times and it still freaks me out. — Corey Taylor
Our job is to find a few intelligent things to do, not to keep up with every damn thing in the world. — Charlie Munger
God almighty, in a few short hours we will be in battle with the enemy. We do not join battle afraid. We do not ask… — Robert Lee Wolverton
Short stories are designed to deliver their impact in as few pages as possible. A tremendous amount is left out, and a good short story… — Orson Scott Card
Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To heck with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is… — Kurt Vonnegut
Postmodern irony and cynicism's become an end in itself, a measure of hip sophistication and literary savvy. Few artists dare to try to talk about… — David Foster Wallace
Beware of clichés. Not just the clichés that Martin Amis is at war with. There are clichés of response as well as expression. There are… — Geoff Dyer
Most new writers think it's easy to write for children, but it's not. You have to get in a beginning, middle and end, tell a… — Andrea Brown
I like to use as few commas as possible so that sentences will go down in one swallow without touching the sides. — Unknown Author
When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others,… — Flannery O'Connor
I don't write easily or rapidly. My first draft usually has only a few elements worth keeping. I have to find what those are and… — Susan Sontag
A reader's emotions can be sparked with few words. That's the power of dialogue. — Sol Stein
I know well enough that very few people who are supposedly interested in writing are interested in writing well. They are interested in publishing something,… — Flannery O'Connor
Writing is hard work. A clear sentence is no accident. Very few sentences come out right the first time, or even the third time. Remember… — William Zinsser
It's my experience that very few writers, young or old, are really seeking advice when they give out their work to be read. They want… — John Irving
All that remains is for a few dots and commas to be crossed. — Unknown Author
For what is important when we give children a theorem to use is not that they should memorize it. What matters most is that by… — Seymour Papert
The lock-step approach of algebra, geometry, and then more algebra (but rarely any statistics) is still dominant in U. S. schools, but hardly anywhere else.… — Lynn Steen

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