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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.
want faces misery
I want to escape from myself. For when I do start up and stare myself seedily in the face, as happens to be my case at present, my blankness is inconceivable--indescribable--my misery amazing.
want waste firsts
Hundreds would never have known want if they had not first known waste. Charles Spurgeon
want revival reverence
If we want revivals, we must revive our reverence for the Word of God.
want walks
I want to walk through life. Alanis Morissette
want wake-up illusion
If you want to stay in a state of illusion, stay in it. But you can always wake up. Alan Watts
want doe angle
I approach every part I'm asked to do and decide to do from exactly the same angle: who is this person, what does he want, how does he attempt to get it, and what happens to him when he doesn't get it, or if he does? Alan Rickman
want making-money
Amateurs want to be right. Professionals want to make money. Alan Greenspan
want painting feels
I feel like there's too many paintings left unpainted that I just don't want to take the time away. Alan Bean
want herds
I don't want to follow the herd. Alain Robert
dull influence authorship
There are both dull correctness and piquant carelessness; it is needless to say which will command the most readers and have the most influence.
dull want littles
If you want a little fear and terror because your life is dull, get a future. Terrifying! Byron Katie
dull cost one-thing
One thing must be avoided at all costs: narrow-mindedness, pedantry, dull pettiness. Bruno Schulz
dull extraordinary-things extraordinary
Do the dull things right so the extraordinary things will not be required too often. Earl Weaver
dull would-be mystery
Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known? Charles de Lint
dull information way
Now, scholars can be very useful and necessary, in their own dull and unamusing way. They provide a lot of information. It's just that there is Something More, and that Something More is what life is really all about. Benjamin Hoff
dull judgment ifs
If I had followed my better judgment always, my life would have been a very dull one. Edgar Rice Burroughs
dull pure flamboyant
A large part of me is pure nebbish - plain, dull, uninteresting. There's a more flamboyant part, too. Obviously. Barbra Streisand
dull frivolity lightness
Thoughtful lightness can make frivolity seem dull and heavy. Italo Calvino