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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.
differentiation happens
We identify in our exerience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us. Alan Watts
different directors filmmaker
Well, if you ask any filmmaker how they got into it, everyone came a different route. Ive never actually watched another director work. Alan Parker
different film should
I'm a pluralist. I've always argued that as many different films as possible should be made.
different stage endure
Love goes through different stages. But it endures. Al Pacino
different
I don't like to be different; I would like to be the same. Chris Burke
different television lines
I was delighted to have lines when they came - learning lines for film isn't a problem, but television is a little different, because we shot those shows the whole way through. David Selby
different idlers
An idler and a sluggard are as different as a gourmand and a glutton. David Mitchell
different language spread
A feature of English that makes it different compared with all other languages is its global spread. David Crystal
different jazz kind
Jazz music by its very nature is just a conglomerate of a lot of different kinds of music. David Sanborn
purpose hell christ
The purpose of God isn't to save us from Hell. The purpose of God is to make us like Christ. Aiden Wilson Tozer
purpose use language
It is as though the ancestors who made language and knew from what bestiality its use rescued them are saying to us: Beware of interfering with its purpose! For when language is seriously interfered with, when it is disjoined from truth, be it from mere incompetence or worse, from malice, horrors can descend again on mankind. Chinua Achebe
purpose assumption
We were created for a purpose and when our underlying assumptions don't reflect this deeper purpose, we begin to whither as human beings. David Kim
purpose kind
On the flip side, when we connect our work with a greater sense of purpose and calling beyond the paycheck, we begin to see the kind of flourishing that we were called to create.
purpose slave
Aristotle [would] probably conclude most Americans, for all intents and purposes, are slaves. David Graeber
purpose trends advertising
Infiniti ads are part of an exciting new trend called "Advertising Whose Sole Purpose Is to Irritate You." Dave Barry
purpose growing lost
But we have to ask ourselves, what's the purpose of the stock market? It's supposed to be a source of capital for growing business. It's lost that purpose. Mark Cuban
purpose miserable persons
Miserable are the persons who do not have something beyond themselves to search for. Charles L. Allen
purpose strange comedy
Comedy is very strange to me and I don't fully understand it's purpose or function. Bo Burnham