Quotes on writing

Whatever sentence will bear to be read twice, we may be sure was thought twice.

~ Henry David Thoreau

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Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

~ Victor Hugo

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Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.

~ Edmund Burke

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It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

~ H.L. Mencken

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When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

~ Ernest Hemingway

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If we are bound to forgive an enemy, we are not bound to trust him.

~ Thomas Fuller

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Slump I ain't in no slump... I just ain't hitting.

~ Yogi Berra

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Literature is a luxury fiction is a necessity.

~ G. K. Chesterton

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Do not ... hope wholly to reason away your troubles do not feed them with attention, and they will die imperceptibly away. Fix your thoughts upon your business, fill your intervals with company, and sunshine will again break in upon your mind.

~ Samuel Johnson

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The most violent element in society is ignorance.

~ Emma Goldman

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