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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.
tragedy saint christianity
Unsaintly saints are the tragedy of Christianity. Aiden Wilson Tozer
tragedy storytelling form
Tragedy is a great storytelling form. It worked extremely well for Shakespeare. It worked extremely well for Jim Cameron with Titanic. Carlton Cuse
tragedy departure earth
I despised my arrival on this earth and I despise my departure; it is a tragedy. William Shakespeare
tragedy fairytale nations
A nation that has no music and no fairytales is a tragedy. Ai Weiwei
tragedy comedy timing
Comedy is tragedy plus timing. Bob Odenkirk
tragedy great-tragedy
It's a great tragedy when the Bible is interpreted by those who are not in love. Bill Johnson
tragedy mask comic
There's nothing grimmer than the tragedy that wears a comic mask. Edith Wharton
tragedy concepts
Tragedy is a literary concept. David Hockney
tragedy enough stage
Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life. Antonin Artaud
terrible formidable sensations
In death itself there can be nothing terrible, for the act of death annihilates sensation; but there are many roads to death, and some of them justly formidable, even to the bravest.
terrible companion acknowledge
Death is a companion for all of us, whether we acknowledge it or not, whether we're aware of it or not, and it's not necessarily a terrible thing. Alan Ball
terrible touched trusted
It touched me to be trusted with something terrible. Elizabeth Kostova
terrible
I have a terrible sense of direction. Elizabeth McGovern
terrible
Unique, ... That wasn't that terrible of a team, I guess. Bobby Valentine
terrible being-true
Some things are too terrible to be true. Bob Dylan
terrible blogs deserve
I'm terrible at posting regularly; I don't deserve the blog success! Ashley Madekwe
terrible bores
Better to go than sit around being a terrible old bore. Auberon Waugh
terrible war
It's kind of a terrible irony, in a way, that the solution to America's problems was World War II. William O'Neill