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I think you should learn about writing from everybody who has ever written that has anything to teach you — Ernest Hemingway
History is written by the rich, and so the poor get blamed for everything. — Jeffrey Sachs
The famous pipe. How people reproached me for it! And yet, could you stuff my pipe? No, it's just a representation, is it not? So… — Rene Magritte
I just want to be written about as a normal artist — Robert Mapplethorpe
You are a child of God. He is father of your spirit. Spiritually you are of noble birth, the offspring of the King of Heaven.… — Boyd K. Packer
Written in support of abolishing the Corn Laws, it became Elliott's most famous poem. The Peoples Anthem When wilt thou save the people Oh, God… — Ebenezer Elliott
I'm going to take the kids away over Christmas but I don't, I've written 14 musicals now, I don't want to rush into doing something… — Andrew Lloyd Webber
The Organization of American States couldn't pour piss out of a boot if the instructions were written on the heel. — Lyndon B. Johnson
[It] was written and sold. I knew it was a strong story because I cared about it and believed in it. I had no idea… — Orson Scott Card
There is the truth about the marathon and very few of you have written the truth. Even if I explain to you, you'll never understand… — Douglas Wakiihuri
When women's true history shall have been written, her part in the upbuilding of this nation will astound the world. — Abigail Scott Duniway
Every constitution written since the end of World War II includes a provision that men and women are citizens of equal stature. Ours does not. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg
The relationship between truth and a newspaper is like the relationship between the color green and the number seven. Occasionally you will see the number… — Garrison Keillor
Any time something is written against me, I not only share the sentiment but feel I could do the job far better myself. Perhaps I… — Jorge Luis Borges
I believe that communism is another sad, bizarre chapter in human history whose last pages even now are being written. I believe this because the… — Ronald Reagan
You know the reason The Beatles made it so big?...'I Wanna Hold Your Hand.' First single....brilliant. Perhaps the most...brilliant song ever written. Because they nailed… — Rachel Cohn
How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is… — Ernest Hemingway
The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to. — Jean Rostand
We are approaching a time when Christians, especially, may have to declare the social contract between Enlightenment rationalists and Biblical believers - which formed the… — Cal Thomas
AugustineThe wounds of a friend are better than the kisses of an enemy. To love with sternness is better than to deceive with gentleness.... In… — Saint Augustine
All the ills from which America suffers can be traced back to the teaching of evolution. It would be better to destroy every other book… — William Jennings Bryan
Of course, the truth is that the congresspersons are too busy raising campaign money to read the laws they pass. The laws are written by… — Dave Barry
There comes a moment in the day when you have written your pages in the morning, attended to your correspondence in the afternoon, and have… — H.G. Wells
If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute. — Hal Abelson

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