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- That's the secret to life... replace one worry with another....
- Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000), Charlie Brown
- You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
- George W. Bush (1946 - ), Speech on May 17, 2002
- A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
- Thomas Mann (1875 - 1955)
- We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
- There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
- 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)
- You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "Back to Methuselah" (1921), part 1, act 1
- My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "Answers to Nine Questions"
- People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "Mrs. Warren's Profession" (1893) act II
- There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "Mrs. Warren's Profession" (1893), act III
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