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They say the day you die your name is written on a cloud.
— Unknown Author
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Your religion was written on tablets of stone, ours on our hearts. 8. We are part of the earth and the earth is part of…
— Chief Seattle
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If I can, by a lucky chance, in these uneasy days, rub out one wrinkle from the brow of care, or beguile the heavy heart…
— Washington Irving
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Rapidity does not always mean progress, and hurry is akin to waste. The old fable of the hare and the tortoise is just as good…
— Charles Warren Stoddard
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Nature's message was always there and for us to see. It was written on the wings of butterflies.
— Unknown Author
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In company with people of your own trade you ordinarily speak of other writers' books. The better the writers the less they will speak about…
— Ernest Hemingway
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Such things and deeds as are not written down are covered with darkness, and given over to the sepulchre of oblivion.
— Ivan Bunin
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No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.
— Antonin Artaud
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I have seldom written a story, long or short, that I did not have to write and rewrite. There are single stories of mine that…
— Sherwood Anderson
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My God, this novel makes me break out in a cold sweat! Do you know how much I've written in five months, since the end…
— Gustave Flaubert
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I have written a great many stories and I still don't know how to go about it except to write it and take my chances.
— John Steinbeck
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But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The author may not be aware…
— Diane Johnson
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If the book is good, is about something that you know, and is truly written, and reading it over you see that this is so,…
— Ernest Hemingway
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There is only one expert who is qualified to examine the souls and the life of a people and make a valuable report - the…
— Mark Twain
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I have no liking for novels or stories - none in the world; and so, whenever I read one - which is not oftener than…
— Mark Twain
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I have just been to a city in the West, a city full of poets, a city they have made safe for poets. The whole…
— Robert Frost
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O Lord, may I never want to look good. O Jesus, may I always read it all: out loud and the very way it should…
— Theodore Roethke
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I can't go on flying apart just for those who want the benefit of a few verbal kicks. My God, do you know what poems…
— Theodore Roethke
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The only certainty about writing and trying to be a writer is that it has to be done, not dreamed of or planned and never…
— Janet Frame
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It is foolhardy to make a second trade, if your first trade shows you a loss. Never average losses. Let this thought be written indelibly…
— Jesse Lauriston Livermore
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I look upon the People and the Nation as handed on to me as an responsibility conferred upon me by God, and I believe, as…
— Wilhelm II
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(Mariners) have written one of its most brilliant chapters. They have delivered the goods when and where needed in every theater of operations and across…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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It may be suggested by some books that it is not a sin to kill an animal, but it is written in our own hearts…
— Leo Tolstoy
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So far no one had had enough courage and intelligence to reveal me to my dear Germans. My problems are new, my psychological horizon frighteningly…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The writer who cannot sometimes throw away a thought about which another man would have written dissertations, without worry whether or not the reader will…
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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