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There's a sureness to good writing even when what's being written about doesn't make all that much sense. It's the sureness of the so-called seat… — Anne Bernays
Absorbing. . . . Scrupulously reported . . . illuminates today’s Middle East. . . . The ‘least interventionist of any modern president,’ the father… — Carlo Wolff
It is written in the Jewish law book, the Talmud, that only the Jew is human, that Gentiles are only animals. — Julius Streicher
Though written constitutions may be violated in moments of passion or delusion, yet they furnish a text to which those who are watchful may again… — Thomas Jefferson
I have written some poetry that I don't understand myself. — Carl Sandburg
The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors. — Max Lerner
I call the book of Job, apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with the pen. — Thomas Carlyle
The fact that there are so many weak, poor and boring stories and novels written and published in America has been ascribed by our rebels… — Saul Bellow
It is written, better to be a fool all your days than for one hour to be evil. You are not a fool. They are… — Isaac Bashevis Singer
If a language is corruptible, then a constitution written in that language is corruptible. — Robert Breault
God has lent us the earth for our life; it is a great entail. It belongs as much to those who are to come after… — John Ruskin
A newspaper, as I'm sure you know, is a collection of supposedly true stories written down by writers who either saw them happen or talked… — Daniel Handler
I've written quite a few things, but I've put it on hold for now to see how everything fits together. Then I'll approach it and… — Matt Sharp
For me, music is sort of my passion, more so than being an actor. I just never tried to make a career as a musician.… — Steve Kazee
Eric Walrond, handsome, cosmopolitan, and beguilingly enigmatic, may have been the most promising literary talent of the Harlem Renaissance.... James Davis's finely written, beautifully paced… — David Levering Lewis
I have never written a word that did not come from my heart. I never shall. — Nellie Bly
Those of you who have been there Haiti know it is one of the most beautiful countries in the world. It has everything. It has… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Certain laws have not been written, but they are more fixed than all the written laws. — Seneca the Younger
Revenge is one of the few things in politics that never gets lost in the mail or written off for a dime on the dollar… — Hunter S. Thompson
Anyone should be very suspicious of a sentence he's written that can't be read aloud easily. — Andy Rooney
I wasn't a normal professor. I had worked in government. I hadn't written nine zillion books. I was a hands-on professor. — Madeleine Albright
In history as it comes to be written, there is usually some Spirit of the Age which historians can define, but the shape of things… — Joseph Wood Krutch
Shakespeare often writes so ill that you hesitate to believe he could ever write supremely well; or, if this way of putting it seem indecorous… — William Ernest Henley
I have got you together to hear what I have written down. I do not wish your advice about the main matterfor that I have… — Abraham Lincoln
The greater amount of truth is impulsively uttered; thus the greater amount is spoken, not written. — Edgar Allan Poe

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