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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.
lazy-man laziness indolence
I like the word "indolence." It makes my laziness seem classy. Bernard Williams
lazy lively stills
The most lively thought is still inferior to the dullest sensation. David Hume
lazy laziness inferiors
We seldom call anybody lazy, but such as we reckon inferior to us, and of whom we expect some service. Bernard de Mandeville
lazy sometimes lethargic
I can be very lazy sometimes. Really lethargic! Charlie McDermott
lazy quit trying yell
Yell at them for what? For not getting a hit? When they quit trying and get lazy I'll yell at all of them. Sam Perlozzo
lazy people rich
People who don't get rich are lazy or just have other priorities.
lazy stride disintegration
Disintegration---I'm taking it in stride. Bret Easton Ellis
lazy-people laziness loser
Don't tolerate lazy people. They are losers. Bear Bryant
lazy laziness complacent
I'm afraid of being lazy and complacent. I'm afraid of taking myself too seriously. Barbara Hershey
idlers gears wheels
If I were to imagine myself as an idler wheel inside some big mix of gears, then I would be connected to everything. It's not like there's just me and then nothing. Fiona Apple
idlers poet ifs
All poets are idlers, even if all idlers are not poets. Tom Hodgkinson