"Good writing is essentially rewriting." — Roald Dahl

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• Friendship is essentially a partnership. — Aristotle
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• I don't think the relationship between novels and realities are one to one. Of course novels play different roles. It's… — Margaret Atwood
• The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially… — Ibrahim Babangida
• The Christian response is contained in these two fundamental dogmas: that of the Trinity and that of the Incarnation. In… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
• But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while… — Honore de Balzac
• Most crime fiction, no matter how 'hard-boiled' or bloodily forensic, is essentially sentimental, for most crime writers are disappointed romantics. — John Banville
• In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution. — Bela Bartok
• Pride is essentially competitive in nature. We pit our will against God's. — Ezra Taft Benson
• A drawing is essentially a private work, related only to the artist's own needs; a 'finished' statue or canvas is… — John Berger
• Importantly, in the 1930s, in the Great Depression, the Federal Reserve, despite its mandate, was quite passive and, as a… — Ben Bernanke

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