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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.
obsession lifestyle consumers
We're consumers. We are by-products of a lifestyle obsession... Brad Pitt
obsession
My only regret is the media's obsession with the past. Ken Livingstone
obsession
I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves. Barbara Kingsolver
obsession thompson twins
Yes, people's obsession with my Thompson Twins years is very frustrating, Tom Bailey
obsession form
The form is always the measure of the obsession. Alberto Giacometti
obsession dangerous
... obsessions are always dangerous. Agatha Christie
obsession purity obsessed
Reformers who are obsessed with purity and cannot see that their obsession is impure. E. M. Forster
obsession point pop
I think when it comes to pop I'm past the point of curiosity. I admit to a full-on obsession with it, and I think it's getting worse, actually. Carly Rae Jepsen
obsession mood habit
Many of our threats are imaginary. The habits and even obsessions that we develop to keep them away are destructive and undermine our moods constantly. Liz Miller
violent-acts silence television
But, I don't know, the violence, I can't even talk about. We don't do a lot of violent shows. When I started in television, breaking a pencil was a violent act. Aaron Spelling
violently
No one should be allowed to violently trample on the law. Vladimir Putin
violent process honorable
An honorable human relationship ... is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other. Adrienne Rich
violent non-violent
Anything that is non-violent is OK with me. Jasmine Guy
violent share violent-movies
I guess you could say I've been in my share of violent movies. Daniel Craig
violent
Of the paperbacks that you see at the airport, I am the most violent woman writer. Chelsea Cain
violent
I would like to write a book that wasn't so violent and weird, but I just don't think I can do that with my talent. I don't think it would come off. Donald Ray Pollock
violent aggressive
The English are potentially very aggressive, very violent Jack Straw
violent
It is what it is. We play a violent sport. Shaun Alexander