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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.
london forget sometimes
You know, London is so sprawling, and you can sometimes forget that anybody else is on a stage anywhere else. Alan Rickman
london emptiness endless
London is an endless skirmish between angles and emptiness. China Mieville
london pavement rooms
When insolvent, pack minimally, with a valise tough enough to be thrown onto a London pavement from a first- or second-floor window. Insist on hotel rooms no higher. David Mitchell
london royal eric
I went to London and performed in Eric Clapton's concert at the Royal Albert Hall. I'll work with him any time he asks me. Carole King
london doe justified
It does not astonish me that the critics in London relegate me to the lowest rank. Alas! I fear that they are only too justified! Camille Pissarro
london moved teenage tower
During my teenage years as an Islamist recruiter, I moved to live in self-contained communities in the London boroughs of Newham and Tower Hamlets. Maajid Nawaz
london amsterdam way
Brian Eno and Robert Fripp's foray into some artful excursions into some ethereal electric experiments. There was a lot curious activities emerging in London, Amsterdam, and Berlin back then developing some fiercely fuzzy of synth-like effects way outside the norm which really blew the lid off things. Billy Gibbons
london wells objectives
The objective is to do things well in London. Dayron Robles
london grim-reaper motorbike
I drive a motorbike, so there is the whiff of the grim reaper round every corner, especially in London. Benedict Cumberbatch
imaginary planet powerless protect trying
We must stop trying to protect our planet from every imaginable, exaggerated or imaginary risk. And we must stop trying to protect it on the backs, and the graves, of the nation's and world's most powerless and impoverished people. Niger Innis
imaginary life obviously ordinary rather retreat various writers
All writers are obviously neurotic... For various reasons, writers retreat into an imaginary world because they find ordinary life rather difficult or boring or both. Christopher Koch
imaginary
These are facts, these are not imaginary things.
imaginary courses
Maybe God is an asshole...of course not, he's not an asshole, he's imaginary. Louis C. K.
imaginary spending time
To be a writer, you need to like spending a lot of time by yourself in the company of imaginary people. Jane Lindskold
imaginary korean north nuclear peaceful talk
To talk of 'a peaceful North Korean nuclear industry' is to talk of an imaginary animal, like a unicorn, Nicholas Eberstadt
imaginary iran
AN IMAGINARY AXIS OF EVIL: IRAN FROM THE INSIDE,
imaginary land
It was so important that this not be an imaginary land. Mark Johnson
imaginary maintain needed people reasons spent
I spent my childhood in an imaginary world - probably because I needed an escape. I think that's one of the reasons people have imaginations - because they can't maintain existence here. Rickie Lee Jones