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The more laws that are written, the more criminals are produced. — Laozi
A humane and authentic book written by another voice from the trenches. — Joanne Greenberg
The written word is redundant on the high seas. Why? Because paper gets wet too easily. — Walter Moers
History should not be written to make the present generation feel good but to remind us that human affairs are complicated. — Margaret MacMillan
I am moved, shaken, and when it is all over, I look at wonder at what is written or painted. — Unknown Author
I think there's something strange about writing a script I've written many, many scripts - dozens and dozens of scripts - and every time I… — Brian Helgeland
I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry is shorter than… — Saul Williams
Never write a poem about anything that ought to have a poem written about it. — Richard Hugo
Alas! It is well written, The road to eminence lies through the cheap and exceedingly uninviting eating-houses. — Ernest Bramah
True memoir is written, like all literature, in an attempt to find not only a self but a world — Patricia Hampl
It is when one begins to lose the consciousness of freedom, and when the idea of necessity enters the world at all, when there is… — Isak Dinesen
In almost every musical ever written, there's a place that's usually about the third song of the evening - sometimes it's the second, sometimes it's… — Unknown Author
There are many things I’ve written that I didn’t really understand until a long time later. — Harry Mathews
Words are substance strange. Speak one and the air ripples into another's ears. Write one and the eye laps it up. But the sense transmutes,… — Dan Beachy-Quick
I haven't written enough songs to be able to say that I have a system. I've only written a handful. — Mike Gordon
Typos are very important to all written form. It gives the reader something to look for so they aren’t distracted by the total lack of… — R. K. Milholland
As authentic as it is riveting and ultimately unforgettable. Your past will find you-and it can change your life. I think it's the most soulful… — Dorothea Benton Frank
Sleeping in Eden is intense and absorbing from the very first page. Written in lovely prose, two seemingly different storylines collide in a shocking conclusion. — Heather Gudenkauf
A remarkable tour de force that will hopefully end forever the argument that science and the spiritual are opposed to one another. This wonderful collection… — James Fadiman
I love revisions...We can't go back and revise our lives, but being allowed to go back and revise what we have written comes closest. — Katherine Paterson
The government was set to protect man from criminals-and the constitution was written to protect man from the government. The Bill of Rights was not… — Ayn Rand
Mozart never composed anything, ever! He copied what was written on his soul. — Marc Chagall
Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. Fanatics will never learn that, though it be written in letters of gold across the sky. It… — Mark Twain
Never criticize the composition of a Royal Highness. You never know who may have written it. — Johannes Brahms
Where words can be translated into equivalent words, the style of an original can be closely followed; but no translation which aims at being written… — Gilbert Murray

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