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Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them.: Robert Graves (1895 - 1985)
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I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
The upper classes are... a nation's past; the middle class is its future.: Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982)
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Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.: J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets, 1999
Often we can achieve an even better result when we stumble yet are willing to start over, when we don't give up after a mistake, when something doesn't come easily but we throw ourselves into trying, when we're not afraid to appear less than perfectly polished.: Sharon Salzberg, O Magazine, The Power of Intention, January 2004
We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.: Ray Bradbury (1920 - )
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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The universe is not hostile, nor yet is it friendly. It is simply indifferent.: J. H. Holmes
Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.: Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007)
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Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.: Robert Orben
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The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.: Henry S. Haskins
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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I was coming home from kindergarten--well they told me it was kindergarten. I found out later I had been working in a factory for ten years. It's good for a kid to know how to make gloves.: Ellen DeGeneres
The whole point in bein' a hero is to do somethin' greater than yerself. It'd be easy to do it for the glory or the girls. We're bigger men than that.: Alexander Woo, True Blood, Beyond Here Lies Nothing, 2009
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Good writing takes more than just time; it wants your best moments and the best of you.: Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com weblog, 10-09-04
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It's important that someone celebrate our existence... People are the only mirror we have to see ourselves in. The domain of all meaning. All virtue, all evil, are contained only in people. There is none in the universe at large. Solitary confinement is a punishment in every human culture.: Lois McMaster Bujold, "Mirror Dance", 1994
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), 'King Henry IV part I'
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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An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.: Charles de Montesquieu (1689 - 1755)
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Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.: Milton Friedman (1912 - 2006)
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