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- Writers have two main problems. One is writer's block, when the words won't come at all and the other is logorrhea, when the words come so fast that they can hardly get to the wastebasket in time.
- Cecilia Bartholomew
- Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
- Truman Capote (1924 - 1984)
- Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.
- John Viscount Morley
- You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- The only way to reform some people is to chloroform them.
- Thomas C. Haliburton
- The holy passion of Friendship is so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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