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Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long.: Leonard Bernstein (1918 - 1990)
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I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.: Fred Allen (1894 - 1956)
What's another word for Thesaurus?: Steven Wright (1955 - )
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), from Boswell's Life of Johnson
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We are each responsible for our own life - no other person is or even can be.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood...Make big plans, aim high in hope and work.: Daniel H. Burnham (1846 - 1912)
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After you've been in a place for a while, everything starts to look... I won't say better, there's no need to go to extremes...but your everyday life does start to become...familiar.: David Assael, Northern Exposure, Russian Flu, 1990
Fear plays an interesting role in our lives. How dare we let it motivate us? How dare we let it into our decision making; into our livelihoods; into our relationships? It's funny isn't it? We take a day a year to dress up, in costume and celebrate fear.: Greg Daniels, Carrie Kemper, Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant, The Office, Spooked, October 2011
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Every increased possession loads us with new weariness.: John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
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He not busy being born is busy dying.: Bob Dylan (1941 - )
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The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.: Sebastian R. N. Chamfort
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Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place.: Billy Crystal (1947 - )
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Humor is just another defense against the universe.: Mel Brooks (1926 - )
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The great tragedy of Science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.: Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)
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The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything - or nothing.: Nancy Astor (1879 - 1964)
True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home.: John Hay (1838 - 1905), Distichs, latter 19th century
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The best way to learn to be an honest, responsible adult is to live with adults who act honestly and responsibly.: Claudia Jewett Jarrett, Adopting the Older Child, 1978
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Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
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Every time we say, "Let there be!" in any form, something happens.: Stella Terrill Mann
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