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Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take…
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That's the public-school system all over. They may kick you out, but they never let you down.
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She had heard someone say something about an Independent Labour Party, and was furious that she had not been asked.
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Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.
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Of the many smells of Athens two seem to me the most characteristic - that of garlic, bold and deadly like acetylene…
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One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric.
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If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside.
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I haven't been to sleep for over a year. That's why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one…
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I [had] added another small piece to the pages of the atlas that were real to me.
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Most writers in the course of their careers become thick-skinned and learn to accept vituperation, which in any other profession would be…
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Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of…
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You ask me why I spend my life writing? Do I find entertainment? Is it worthwhile? Above all, does it pay? If…
— Sylvia Plath
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Beware of writing to me. I always answer ... My father spent the last 20 years of his life writing letters. If…
— Evelyn Waugh
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I see no reason to spend your life writing poems unless your goal is to write great poems.
— Donald Hall
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Do you like reading? It's the best thing that can happen to you in life. Writing has other implications.
— Manuel Rivas
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I would willingly pass my life writing and re-writing the same book - that one book every writer carries within him -…
— Ignazio Silone
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I hope I am not too old to take it up seriously, nor too stupid about machines to qualify as a commercial…
— Samuel Beckett
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I spend all my time trying to keep thoughts away and ignore them....But here you are, trying to remember your own life,…
— Michael Scott
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And here I am, instead of there. I'm sitting in this library, thousands of miles from my life, writing another letter I…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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And so it was settled. Sam Gamgee married Rose Cotton in the spring of 1420 (which was also famous for its weddings),…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Work controls my life, writing controls my life, performing controls my life.
— Lemon Andersen
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The kind of true-life writing that is fun to read - that makes an ally of the reader - is the kind…
— Julie Klausner
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