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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.
want faces misery
I want to escape from myself. For when I do start up and stare myself seedily in the face, as happens to be my case at present, my blankness is inconceivable--indescribable--my misery amazing.
want waste firsts
Hundreds would never have known want if they had not first known waste. Charles Spurgeon
want revival reverence
If we want revivals, we must revive our reverence for the Word of God.
want walks
I want to walk through life. Alanis Morissette
want wake-up illusion
If you want to stay in a state of illusion, stay in it. But you can always wake up. Alan Watts
want doe angle
I approach every part I'm asked to do and decide to do from exactly the same angle: who is this person, what does he want, how does he attempt to get it, and what happens to him when he doesn't get it, or if he does? Alan Rickman
want making-money
Amateurs want to be right. Professionals want to make money. Alan Greenspan
want painting feels
I feel like there's too many paintings left unpainted that I just don't want to take the time away. Alan Bean
want herds
I don't want to follow the herd. Alain Robert
diaries guitar hobby ideas might music people pick songs time whatever work
Music was never just a hobby for me. I'd pick up a guitar every day to work on whatever I was writing at the time. I would put my ideas in songs the way some people might put them in diaries or journals. Tracy Chapman
diaries experience knew motorcycle
Also, I knew that the impact of Motorcycle Diaries was going to be so resonant for all of us who went through the experience of making it that I didn't want to do anything that could reflect it. Walter Salles
diaries feels level stuff teenager time
I was a kind of angsty teenager and I would write diaries and write stuff down all the time. Sometimes I get to the level on stage where I'm singing and it feels heavy, but not always. Ellie Goulding
diaries reason-why journal
I suppose this is the reason why diaries are so rarely kept nowadays- that nothing ever happens to anybody. A. A. Milne
diaries diary million tiring
The uncut diaries are 16 million words. It's very tiring to do your diary every night before you go to bed. Tony Benn
diaries want causes
I just want to do films 'cause I like being someone else. My music is kind of like my diary. I'll always do that... I just feel like the music industry isn't as positive as I'd like it to be. Miley Cyrus
diaries journal seems
My diary seems to keep me whole. Anais Nin
diaries roles painful
[The Rum Diary] is a prestigious movie and it's got a great, talented cast, so they wanted to make sure they had the right person for the role, but it was a torturous process. It was painful. Amber Heard
diaries miserable used
I like to read my diary occasionally to remind myself what a miserable, alienated old sod I used to be. Jo Brand