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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.
duty fulfill fund helps maximum outcome providing returns work
The outcome helps us fulfill our duty of providing maximum returns on our investments to fund the work of the church. Paul Clarke
duty effective peace perform position
The position of the U.N. ... must be strengthened so that it can perform its duty of safeguarding peace in a more effective way, Li Zhaoxing
duty worst
The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else. Edith Wharton
duty pleasant fulfilled
You have not fulfilled every duty unless you have fulfilled that of being pleasant.
duty beneficial
Duty is not beneficial because it is commanded, but is commanded because it is beneficial. Benjamin Franklin
duty fix front life
I'm a duty solicitor, so I can't fix someone's life; all I can do is fix the problem I've got in front of my eyes. Kerry Greenwood
duty
I think it's a short story writer's duty, as well as writing well about emotions and characters, to write story.
duty sufferings
It is my duty to voice the suffering of men, the never-ending sufferings heaped mountain-high. Kathe Kollwitz
duty fight home hugely knowing patriotism people possibly public soldier soldiers understand wants
Every American soldier wants as much public support as he can possibly have. That's the soldiers on duty in Iraq, and that's me, as well. We fight better knowing that our people back home support us, back us, and understand what we're doing. It's hugely important. John Abizaid