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Charlie Studd has written me a delightful letter... He thinks the Chinese language was invented by the devil to prevent the Chinese from ever hearing… — Ion Keith-Falconer
Your function as a critic is to show that it is really you yourself who should have written the book, if you had had the… — Stephen Potter
Dad’s especially need to remember that what they say to their daughters is written in Sharpie. It can’t be erased. — Sue Enquist
The composer Stravinsky had written a new piece with a difficult violin passage. After it had been in rehearsal for several weeks, the solo violinist… — Thomas Powers
I got a cable from New York saying that what I'd written about the growth of Soviet agricultural production didn't make sense because the same… — Harrison Salisbury
When I say God it is poetry and not theology. Nothing that any theologian has written about God has helped me much, but everything the… — John Haynes Holmes
Whatever an author puts between the two covers of his book is public property; whatever of himself he does not put there is his private… — Mary Abigail Dodge
When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder,… — C L R James
I had a national and international reputation. I had written the history and articles. So I brought to the Trotskyist movement some international reputation. — C L R James
This is the gay agenda: equality. Not special rights, but the rights that are already written by [our Founding Fathers]. — LZ Granderson
A lot of the songs are written on piano or guitar, so I contribute, and I have done so since the beginning. So it's been… — Caroline Corr
I recently reread an article of mine written in 1964, and I think it is still valid. There is not much difference. Many of the… — Harri Holkeri
Female Chauvinist Pigs is smart, alarming, and extremely funny. With nuance and humor, Levy has written both a convincing expos of sex and desire in… — Cathleen Schine
Scholars have endlessly written about antebellum Protestant thinking about slavery. Now, finally, Friends of the Unrighteous Mammon turns a spotlight on a new, crucial question:… — Lauren F. Winner
History is not what happened but what is written down — Kathleen McGowan
A scientist with a poet's command of language, Cristina Eisenberg writes with precision and passion . . . takes her reader on a breathtaking, sometimes… — Elizabeth Cunningham
Autobiography of a Yogi is justifiably celebrated as one of the most entertaining and enlightening spiritual books ever written. — Tom Butler-Bowdon
Written with passion, honesty, humor, and a stubborn, rebellious optimism, Dear Marcus is like nothing I've ever read. When a bullet in the back told… — Shalom Auslander
Good advertising is written from one person to another. When it is aimed at millions it rarely moves anyone. — Fairfax M. Cone
Christianity was neither original nor unique, but that the roots of much of the Judeo/ Christian tradition lay in the prevailing Kamite (ancient Egyptian) culture… — Gerald Massey
For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses. — Victoria Abril
Literature in the written sense represents the triumph of language over writing: the subversion of writing for purposes that have little or nothing to do… — Robert Bringhurst
Manifesto. Read my Manifesto. I`ve written a Manifesto. It`s all in the Manfesto! — Theodore Kaczynski
My aim was to create armaments to protect the borders of my motherland. It is not my fault that the Kalashnikov became very well-known in… — Mikhail Kalashnikov
History is lived forwards but it is written in retrospect. We know the end before we consider the beginning and we can never wholly recapture… — C. V. Wedgwood

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