Using Quotes

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The problem is once you've written the opening paragraph and worked out how the rest of the story will go in your head, there's nothing… — Colm Toibin
Just erotic. Nothing kinky. It's the difference between using a feather and using a chicken. — Terry Pratchett
A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth… — Ursula K. Le Guin
I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe,… — James Joyce
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do. — Thomas Jefferson
Because today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political… — Philip K. Dick
Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly. — Roger Ebert
Using a metaphor in front of a man as unimaginative as Ridcully was like a red flag to a bu... was like putting something very… — Terry Pratchett
It is part of the irony of life that the strongest feelings of devoted gratitude of which human nature seems to be susceptible, are called… — John Stuart Mill
In those days he really didn't know what he was talking about; that is to say, he was a young jailkid all hung-up on the… — Jack Kerouac
I suppose that people, using themselves and each other so much by words, are at least consistent in attributing wisdom to a still tongue... — William Faulkner
The so-called consumer society and the politics of corporate capitalism have created a second nature of man which ties him libidinally and aggressively to the… — Herbert Marcuse
...I want first of all - in fact, as an end to these other desires - to be at peace with myself. I want a… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself. Impossible. Confusing. Frustrating ... but there… — Patrick Rothfuss
When you don't cover up the world with words and labels, a sense of the miraculous returns to your life that was lost a long… — Eckhart Tolle
PowerPoint is like being trapped in the style of early Egyptian flatland cartoons rather than using the more effective tools of Renaissance visual representation. — Edward Tufte
Even the best weapon is an unhappy tool, hateful to living things. So the follower of the Way stays away from it. Weapons are unhappy… — Ursula K. Le Guin
[He] looked up and imagined the hand of God flinging stars like shining dust across the heavens. No. He was wrong to think such pagan… — Francine Rivers
To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result… — Theodore Roosevelt
Hegel seems to me to be always wanting to say that things which look different are really the same. Whereas my interest is in showing… — Ludwig Wittgenstein

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