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Every man rejoices twice when he has a partner in his joy. He who shares tears with us wipes them away. He divides them in… — Fulton J. Sheen
I see the President almost every day. I see very plainly Abraham Lincoln's dark brown face with its deep-cut lines, the eyes always to me… — Walt Whitman
It is good to see two women from Britain's minority ethnic communities fighting in seats that Labour won at the last election. — Unknown Author
You know I like that fight and I'm confident of walking away with two super-middleweight titles — Unknown Author
Against war one might say that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished malicious. In its favor, that in producing these two effects it… — Friedrich Nietzsche
War and culture, those are the two poles of Europe, her heaven and hell, her glory and shame, and they cannot be separated from one… — Milan Kundera
My breast cancer was caught very early thanks to my doctor a wonderful woman named Elsie Giogi, who just recently passed away after practicing medicine… — Kate Jackson
[Admiral Nelson's counsel] guided me time and again. On the eve of the critical battle of Santa Cruz, in which the Japanese ships outnumbered ours… — William Halsey
If the bubble reputation can be obtained only at the cannon's mouth, I am willing to go there for it, provided the cannon is empty.… — Mark Twain
Many years ago, I was in a Broadway show and I had to wear a fox fur around my shoulders. One day my hand touched… — Bea Arthur
There are two types of laws: there are just laws and there are unjust laws... What is the difference between the two?...An unjust law is… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Let's concede that we have decided to let our children grow up in two separate nations, and lead two separate kinds of lives. If, on… — Jonathan Kozol
The tree which needs two arms to span its girth sprang from the tiniest shoot. Yon tower, nine stories high, rose from a little mound… — Laozi
We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable terror. It is fantasy, served out in large… — Susan Sontag
I believe there are two ways of writing novels. One is mine, making a sort of musical comedy without music and ignoring real life altogether;… — P.G. Wodehouse
The secret of play-writing can be given in two maxims: stick to the point, and, whenever you can, cut. — W. Somerset Maugham
Yes, it has made me happier. Finishing them has made me happier. Before I wrote the Potter books, I'd never finished a novel. I came… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Every sentence must do one of two things-reveal character or advance the action. — Kurt Vonnegut
After finishing the first draft, I work for as long as it takes (for two or three weeks, most often) to rework that first draft… — Kent Haruf
Every novel is an equal collaboration between the writer and the reader and it is the only place in the world where two strangers can… — Paul Auster
There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves. — Clifton Fadiman
Real seriousness in regard to writing is one of two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent. — Ernest Hemingway
No human being ever spoke of scenery for above two minutes at a time, which makes me suspect that we hear too much of it… — Robert Louis Stevenson
Every paragraph should accomplish two goals: advance the story, and develop your characters as complex human beings. — Nancy Kress
The best way is to read it all every day from the start, correcting as you go along, then go on from where you stopped… — Ernest Hemingway

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