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writing hair fire
Prowling about the rooms, sitting down, getting up, stirring the fire, looking out the window, teasing my hair, sitting down to write, writing nothing, writing something and tearing it up... Charles Dickens
writing numbers gold
Genius, in one respect, is like gold; numbers of persons are constantly writing about both, who have neither. Charles Caleb Colton
writing language nonsense
It is curious that some learned dunces, because they can write nonsense in languages that are dead, should despise those that talk sense in languages that are living.
writing men profound
He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.
writing faces privacy
The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.
writing men three
There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to find sensible men to read it.
writing should-have fire
We should have a glorious conflagration, if all who cannot put fire into their works would only consent to put their works into the fire.
writing self hints
The awkwardness and embarrassment which all feel on beginning to write, when they themselves are the theme, ought to serve as a hint to author's that self is a subject they ought very rarely to descant upon.
writing two style
When I meet with any persons who write obscurely or converse confusedly, I am apt to suspect two things; first, that such persons do not understand themselves; and secondly, that they are not worthy of being understood by others.
habit reconcile
Habit will reconcile us to everything but change
habit could-have-been has-beens
It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be. Alan Paton
habit circumstances
Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances. Bryan Adams
habit paint
Paint something every day. David Hockney
habit reacting interest
Very often, human beings are living like on autopilot, reacting automatically with what happens. What interests me about the life of an explorer is you are in the unknown; you are out of your habits. Bertrand Piccard
habit duty
The habit of doing one's duty drives away fear. Charles Baudelaire
habit resolve poor-richard
He that resolves to mend hereafter, resolves not to mend now. Benjamin Franklin
habit not-afraid
Fear is a habit; I am not afraid. Aung San Suu Kyi
habitat pageant evolve
Habitats keep evolving new pageants of species, and we shouldn't interfere. Diane Ackerman
latter matter matters says speech three
Three things matter in a speech - who says it, how he says it and what he says, and of the three, the latter matters the least John Morley
latter mitchell split thursday tough visited
I thought we would have probably split with Sickles and Countryside (the latter of which visited Mitchell on Thursday night). It's a tough district.
latter marked piece taking
I always marked up a piece of paper before taking a job, looking at the pluses and minuses. If the latter outnumbered the former, I would pass.
latter period steadily tendency
In the period from 1824 to 1833, the tendency was steadily in the former direction, but it was only in the latter part of it that it was made really efficient. Henry Charles Carey
latter estates careful
Be more careful of your conscience than of your estate. The latter can be bought and sold; the former never. Hosea Ballou
latter life running viable
The joke I always make is I'm either running for reelection, running for Senate, running for governor, or running for my life. The latter is also a viable possibility. Cory Booker
latter
He's progressing, getting back to form. He's not where he should be right now, but he could be by the latter part of the week. Bill Callahan
latter former determine
Being and time determine each other reciprocally, but in such a manner that neither can the former - Being - be addressed as something temporal nor can the latter - time - be addressed as a being. Martin Heidegger
latter distasteful
As between the intolerable and the merely distasteful, I must choose the latter. Rex Stout