![[The writer] must essentially draw from life as he sees it, lives it, overhears it or steals it, and the truer the writer, perhaps the bigger the blackguard. He lives by biting the hand that feeds him.](/assets/img/quote-photos/the-writer-must-essentially-draw-from-life-as-he-sees-it-lives-it-overhears-i.jpg)
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hands feelings excess
The victims of ennui paralyze all the grosser feelings by excess, and torpify all the finer by disuse and inactivity. Disgusted with this world, and indifferent about another, they at last lay violent hands upon themselves, and assume no small credit for the sang froid with which they meet death. But, alas! such beings can scarcely be said to die, for they have never truly lived. Charles Caleb Colton
hands class two
Literature has her quacks no less than medicine, and they are divided into two classes; those who have erudition without genius, and those who have volubility without depth; we shall get second-hand sense from the one, and original nonsense from the other.
hands sorrow tears
If I dropped a tear upon your hand, may it wither it up! If I spoke a gentle word in your hearing, may it deafen you! If I touched you with my lips, may the touch be poison to you! A curse upon this roof that gave me shelter! Sorrow and shame upon your head! Ruin upon all belonging to you! Charles Dickens
hands feet office
Skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape.
hands library grew
I grew up on second hand bookshops and libraries. Charles Stross
hands soul half
I would rather lay my soul asoak in half a dozen verses [of the Bible] all day than rinse my hand in several chapters. Charles Spurgeon
hands despair rope
Faith has a saving connection with Christ. Christ is on the shore, so to speak, holding the rope, and as we lay hold of it with the hand of our confidence, He pulls us to shore; but all good works having no connection with Christ are drifted along down the gulf of fell despair.
hands soap calling
There’s no shame about any honest calling; don’t be afraid of soiling your hands, there’s plenty of soap to be had.
hands ignorant used
And it came to pass that in the hands of the ignorant, the words of the Bible were used to beat plowshares into swords Alan Watts
biting glamour love work
Yes, I love the glamour industry. I love the work that I've done so far. But it's not as if I have this biting ambition to be at the top. Malaika Arora Khan
biting licking writers
Writers divide into those who write biting their nails and those who don't. Some writers write licking their finger. Italo Calvino
biting gotten keeps steadily
Robots have gotten steadily more capable, but humans' expectations that robots should have minds keeps biting robot developers. David Hanson
biting comments demand enormous expressed fall figures good homely otherwise pressures public puts radio screen video
Our demand for good looks, expressed in the biting comments that ensue when public figures fall short of perfection, puts enormous pressures on these individuals and may screen out the otherwise qualified. If video killed the radio star, it may also be doing away with the homely politician. Virginia Postrel
biting certainly exactly feeds hand reason scientific space species survive travel
There is no scientific reason to think that we, even with space travel, are going to survive as a species for ever, certainly not by biting off the hand that feeds us, which is exactly what we are doing. Lynn Margulis
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Frankly we're a little concerned here about the popularity of the interest-only and no or low down payment loans. Everyone's situation is different, and they may be a good fit for some. But these kinds of loans can, I think, lead to people biting off more than they can chew. Scott Walker
biting creek finish limits motor
We can finish our limits here, or we can motor up to Hickory Creek and see if they're biting like they were yesterday.
biting defensive developed giant skills wild
He has also developed defensive skills by howling and biting just as a wild giant panda would do.
biting hard hit hurt seriously trying
I got hit so (expletive) hard in the head, I was dazed. They were trying to seriously hurt me. They were biting me. George Williams
stealing great-writers good-writers
Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright. Aaron Sorkin
stealing immoral
It's immoral to steal, but you can take things. Anton Chekhov
stealing
All writers steal from their own lives. Brad Meltzer
stealing share limelight
You steal the limelight, you steal the market share Barbara Corcoran
stealing
Everyone steals from something or someone. Janice Dickinson
stealing-things stealing honestly
Honestly, I love stealing things. Creed Bratton
stealing taxpayer
We do take this seriously. It's like stealing taxpayer dollars.
stealing streets
Love can be begged, bought, or received as a gift, one can find it in the street, but one cannot steal it. Hermann Hesse
stealing utopia possession
Some who are too scrupulous to steal your possessions nevertheless see no wrong in tampering with your thoughts. Khalil Gibran