Write Quotes
10211 quotes by 5140 authors
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I began to write more songs when I had more time, especially when we began to stop touring. Having Indian things so much in my…
— George Harrison
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Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
— Proverb
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I agree with every word you write, and I can prove this in no better way than by taking your advice from beginning to end.
— Ellen Glasgow
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Write injuries in sand, kindnesses in marble
— French Proverb
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The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.
— James Matthew Barrie
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One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection.
— Anais Nin
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He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.
— Oscar Wilde
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I don't like to write, but I love to have written.
— Michael Kanin
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It is my indignant opinion that 90 percent of the moving pictures exhibited in America are so vulgar, witless and dull that it is preposterous…
— Wolcott Gibbs
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I perceived that to express those impressions, to write that essential book, which is the only true one, a great writer does not, in the…
— Marcel Proust
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You write a book like that that you're fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it, it's like pissing in your…
— Ernest Hemingway
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A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it come as sincerely from the author's soul
— Aldous Huxley
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Do right and fear no man; don't write and fear no woman
— Luke McLuke
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That man (Lord Lyttelton) sat down to write a book, to tell the world what the world had all his life been telling him
— Samuel Johnson
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Even those who argue against fame still want the books they write against it to bear their name in the title and hope to become…
— Michel De Montaigne
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This indictment of Christianity I will write on all walls, wherever there are walls - I have letters to make even the blind see.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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When poets write about food it is usually celebratory. Food as the thing-in-itself, but also the thoughtful preparation of meals, the serving of meals, meals…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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When a child is learning to write, it is extremely easy for it to hold the pen wrongly, and to form its letters incorrectly, but…
— James Allen
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Even if I use sweet phrases in this description, I cannot even be sure that what I write here is true, precisely because I do…
— Sorin Cerin
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