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Word Quotes by John Steinbeck
- To finish is a sadness to a writer - a little death. He puts the last word down and it is done. But it isn't…
- They must be real people. And this means that every word in every line of speech must be accurate and full of some kind of…
- Texas is a state of mind. Texas is an obsession. Above all else, Texas is a nation in every sense of the word.
- In Spanish there is a word for which I can't find a counterword in English. It is the verb VACILAR... It does not mean vacillating…
- I have no interest in the printed word. I would continue to write if there were no writing and no print. I put my words…
- The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.
- But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’— that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the…
- For the world was changing, and sweetness was gone, and virtue too. Worry had crept on a corroding world, and what was lost- good manners,…
- The Hebrew word, the word timshel - 'Thou mayest' - that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That…
- Farewell has a sweet sound of reluctance. Good-by is short and final, a word with teeth sharp to bite through the string that ties past…
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- When we speak the word 'life,' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its… — Antonin Artaud
- I prefer the word 'homemaker' because 'housewife' always implies that there may be a wife someplace else. — Bella Abzug
- A word after a word after a word is power. — Margaret Atwood
- If I waited for perfection... I would never write a word. — Margaret Atwood
- I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor against his… — Chinua Achebe
- India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to… — Sri Aurobindo
- I guess the toughest things in translations are word play, which can never be reproduced exactly. — Paul Auster
- The reason is that till date, in spite of advances in information technology and strategies of information, the written word in the… — Ibrahim Babangida
- I'm a total Democrat. I'm anti-Republican. And it's only fair that you know it... I'm liberal. The L word! — Lauren Bacall
- A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of. — Burt Bacharach