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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.
get-away concerned organized-religion
I'm concerned about organized religion getting away with what it gets away with. David Cross
get-away
The more you act the further you get away from the truth. Bob Dylan
get-away
I learned from # Hemingway that you could be a # writer and get away with it. Hunter S. Thompson
get-away naturalist hostage
In short, it is not that evolutionary naturalists have been less brazen than the scientific creationists in holding science hostage, but rather that they have been infinitely more effective in getting away with it. Phillip E. Johnson
get-away folks rooted
I have a deep rooted folk sensibility that I can't get away from completely. Joanna Newsom
get-away
It's amazing what we can get away with and what we can't. But it's not for me to decide. Mike Judge
get-away hated
He hated all this, and somehow he couldn't get away. Joseph Conrad
get-away wanted company
Whenever he was in company he wanted to get away, and whenever he was alone he wanted company. J. K. Rowling
get-away muddy convinced
When I started workin' with Muddy. That convinced me that I could get away with doin' the blues. Johnny Winter
impulse pursue following
The impulse to pursue God originates with God, but the outworking of that impulse is our following hard after Him. Aiden Wilson Tozer
impulse less likely notice perform
Often, the more reliably you perform a task, the less likely it is for someone to notice that you're doing it and to feel grateful and to feel any impulse to help or to take a turn. Gretchen Rubin
impulses logic needs people piece prompt unable
'Bum's Rush' is a piece about timing, and everything that's in the piece needs to be with the piece. If people are missing, or marking, or unable to use their voices, the impulses that prompt the action are lost, and its logic crumbles. Twyla Tharp
impulse kid tutors wrote
I didn't think anything I wrote was going to get published. I'm a dyslexic kid who had tutors through college. But I had a very strong impulse to write. Isabel Gillies
impulse
It is part of the fundamental impulse in all living things to reach for light, part of the indomitable will to see. Henry Grunwald
impulse malice remains
Malice remains its animating impulse. Janet Malcolm
impulse-control labs study
I know one lab that studies nicotine receptors and all the scientists are smokers, and another lab that studies impulse control and they're all overweight. David Eagleman
impulse-control years safe
I remember adolescence, the years of having the impulse control of a mousetrap, of being as private as a safe-deposit box. Anna Quindlen
impulse elites
Everyone has the impulse to be elite. Alfre Woodard