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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. Charles Caleb Colton
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. Charles Caleb Colton
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. Charles Caleb Colton
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. Charles Caleb Colton
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. Charles Caleb Colton
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. Charles Caleb Colton
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. Charles Caleb Colton
tales forgetful tedious
Is there anything more tedious than the often repeated tales of the old and forgetful? Charles Caleb Colton
tales
Trust the tale, not the teller. David Knopfler
tales ends universe
A tale, like the universe, they tell us, expands ceaselessly each time you examine it, until there’s finally no telling exactly where it begins, or ends, or where it places you now. Chang-Rae Lee
tales
I don't think you mess around when you talk about tales of valor. David Gregory
tales
Every tale is not to be believed. Aesop
tales
Fairy tales are really violent, the original ones. Jane Levy
tales tact discretion
I have tales to tell, but I don't tell them. Discretion. Discretion. Gregory Peck
tales mice
A woman and a mouse, they carry a tale wherever they go. Gelett Burgess
tales familiarity truest
The truest tales require time and familiarity to become what they are. Erin Morgenstern
died hit people
The people who died were hit by shrapnel. Michael Baden
died guys sequel spiritual
What about a sequel to 'Butch Cassidy?' Well the guys died in it, what is it going to be, a spiritual film? Well how about a prequel? That's pretty desperate. Robert Redford
died
Some of it has died down, but it is what it is. Joe Mauer
died sure
She would have died for sure in the floods. Jim Casey
died morning original saturday
She died Saturday morning in the hospital, she was part of the original cluster, Karen Johnson
died
Most of those who were killed died in their homes. Donnie Smith
died hands mommy people
Mommy! Mommy! She died at the hands of two people she called Mommy and Daddy. Ama Dwimoh
died full hour hours lovers thee though
When I died last, and, Dear, I die as often as from thee I go though it be but an hour ago and lovers hours be full eternity. John Donne
died full hour hours thee though
When I died last, and, Dear, I die / As often as from thee I go, / Though it be but an hour ago, / And lovers' hours be full eternity. John Donne