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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.
scope advantage expenses
The objective is to enlarge the scope of your advantage which can only happen at someone else's expense. Bruce Henderson
scope materials i-can
The scope of material I can work with is not limited to the set of things that we inherit from nature. Drew Endy
scope somewhere tremendous
Somewhere in that scope of things there was a breakdown. Specifically where, I don't know. It's a tremendous disappointment. Pat Monroe
scope
It was very important to get the scope we wanted. Jim Balsillie
scope
The scope of this one is so large. J. J. Johnson
scope
Education can change the scope of an entire family Nitin Nohria
length-of-life space birth
How strangely inaccurate it is to measure length of living by length of life! The space between your birth and death is often far from a true measure of your days of living. Edwin Way Teale
length-of-life important life-is
Width of life is more important than length of life. Avicenna
length just-live wells
Don't just live the length of your life - live the width of it as well. Diane Ackerman
length
Right before I'm about to talk at length about something I like I say, Get me started. Demetri Martin
length saying short time words yes
Yes and No are very short words to say, but we should think for some length of time before saying them.
length predator prey wants
She's a predator and she wants her prey. And that prey is my grandson. She'll go to any length to get him.
length science technology
Much of contemporary science is really the length and shadow of the technology we apply. Erez Lieberman Aiden
length likely sway time
It is not known, now, for what length of time the Tuatha de Danaan had the sway over Ireland, and it is likely it was a long time they had it, but they were put from it at last. Lady Gregory
lengthy less needed practical stories
Like many writers, I started by writing short stories. I needed to learn how to write and stories are the most practical way to do this, and less soul-destroying than working your way through a lengthy novel and then discovering it's rubbish. Kate Atkinson