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The manner in which Epictetus, Montaigne, and Salomon de Tultie wrote, is the most usual, the most suggestive, the most remembered, and the oftener quoted;… — Blaise Pascal
I once wrote a song so beautiful that I myself couldn't sing it. It's called Plastic Government Cheese Swan, and it's about how the world… — Thom Yorke
I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you… — Bat for Lashes
I think that the idea of straight edge, the song that I wrote, and the way people have related it it, there's some people who… — Ian MacKaye
Every song I ever wrote, I wrote to be heard. So, if I was given a choice that 50 years from now I could either… — Ian MacKaye
If you want to see your plays performed the way you wrote them, become President. — Vaclav Havel
According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahideen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan,… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
Regret what? That secret operation was an excellent idea. It had the effect of drawing the Russians into the Afghan trap and you want me… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
I wrote the first book, Harvest of Stars, and as I was writing it, I saw that certain implications had barely been touched on... It's… — Poul Anderson
It is no discredit to Walt Whitman that he wrote Leaves of Grass, only that he did not burn it afterwards. — Thomas Wentworth Higginson
When the artist is truly the servant of the work, the work is better than the artist; Shakespeare knew how to listen to his work,… — Madeleine L'Engle
My goal with The Adventures of Captain Underpants was to invent a style which was almost identical to that of a picture book - in… — Dav Pilkey
I didn't have any desire I might have had 10 years ago to shoot every single word that I wrote. — Paul Thomas Anderson
Writers are frequently asked why they wrote their first book. A more interesting answer might come from asking them why they wrote their second one. — Len Deighton
I wrote The Same Sea not as a political allegory about Israelis and Palestinians. I wrote it about something much more gutsy and immediate. I… — Amos Oz
I wrote a novel about Israelis who live their own lives on the slope of a volcano. Near a volcano one still falls in love,… — Amos Oz
I knew that collaborating on songwriting would be difficult for a lot of people, because I was known very much, for my independence and the… — Liz Phair
Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you. — E. Lockhart
My training was never to drink after dinner nor before I wrote nor while I was writing. — Ernest Hemingway
It was about then [1920] that I wrote a line which certain people will not let me forget: "She was a faded but still lovely… — F. Scott Fitzgerald

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