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My commodity as a writer, whatever I'm writing about, is me. And your commodity is you. Don't alter your voice to fit the subject. Develop… — William Zinsser
When you write, you lay out a line of words. The line of words is a miner's pick, a wood carver's gouge, a surgeon's probe.… — Annie Dillard
Write in the kitchen, lock yourself up in the bathroom. Write on the bus or the welfare line, on the job or during meals. — Gloria E. AnzaldÃºa
Don't tear up the page and start over again when you write a bad line-try to write your way out of it. Make mistakes and… — Garrison Keillor
In the camp, this meant committing my verse-many thousands of lines-to memory. To help me with this I improvised decimal counting beads and, in transit… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Because you're mine, I walk the line. — Johnny Cash
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
When we begin to understand the magnitude of [the Messiah's] sacrifice and service to us individually and collectively, we then cannot consider anything else to… — Cecil O. Samuelson
Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line. What we are seeing once again is a self-appointed group of vigilantes imposing their views… — Doris Lessing
This recognition, in real life, of a rhythm of surfaces, lines, and values is for me the essence of photography; composition should be a constant… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
The... arguments against photography ever being considered a fine art are: the element of chance which enters in, finding things ready-made for a machine to… — Edward Weston
Light is my inspiration, my paint and brush. It is as vital as the model herself. Profoundly significant, it caresses the essential superlative curves and… — Ruth Bernhard
The central act of photography, the act of choosing and eliminating, forces a concentration on the picture edge - the line that separates in from… — John Szarkowski
There's such a fine line between defeat and losing. — Gary Newbon
The provisions of the Constitution are not mathematical formulas having their essence in their form; they are organic, living institutions transplanted from English soil. Their… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The teacher's role in discussion is to keep it going along fruitful lines - be moderating, guiding, correcting and arguing like one more students. — Mortimer Adler
Nature proceeds little by little from things lifeless to animal life in such a way that it is impossible to determine the exact line ure… — Thomas Browne
Children all over the world consort quite naturally with animals. They don't see any dividing line. That is something they have to be taught, just… — J M Coetzee
To me the drawn language is a very revealing language: one can see in a few lines whether a man is really an architect. — Eero Saarinen
The scheme of a game is played on positional lines; the decision of it, as a rule, is effected by combinations. — Richard Reti
...the geometrician teaches me how to work out the size of my estates rather than how to work out how much a man needs in… — Seneca the Younger
Every woman who vacates a place in the teachers' ranks and enters an unusual line of work, does two excellent things: she makes room for… — Frances E. Willard
In racing, there is no question who is best - the first one to cross the finish line wins first prize. But with wine, even… — Mario Andretti
Private and public life are subject to the same rules-truth and manliness are two qualities that will carry you through this world much better than… — Robert E. Lee
I do not exclude this, but I would like to draw your attention to one absolutely key aspect: In line with international law, only the… — Vladimir Putin

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