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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.
prejudice break one-thing
One thing about prejudices -- once you break one of them, you're screwed, because then they all have got to go. Cher
prejudice truth-is weak
Truth is too weak to combat prejudice. Charlotte Lennox
prejudice bundles made
I am, in plainer words, a bundle of prejudices - made up of likings and dislikings. Charles Lamb
prejudice injustice blinded
The glaring injustice is there for all who are not blinded by prejudice to see. Bram Fischer
prejudice
That's what friendship is, sharing the prejudice of experience. Charles Bukowski
prejudice violent
Prejudice is more violent the blinder it is ... Elizabeth Blackwell
prejudice belief judgment
Don't shut down the feedback loop with judgment, rigid beliefs, and prejudices. Deepak Chopra
prejudice kind welfare
Prejudices of any kind are the destroyers of human happiness & welfare. Abdu'l Baha
prejudice talked
Race prejudice can't be talked down, it must be lived down.
topics until
Until a few years ago, the topics in my Ph.D. were unfashionable, but they are very popular today. Benoit Mandelbrot
topics knows
Americans know more about religion than almost any other topic. Bruce Feiler
topics philosopher boring
...somehow the old philosophers could make even the most salacious topics seem boring. Brandon Sanderson
topics
I talk to teens everyday about topics that are often extraordinarily uncomfortable. Rosalind Wiseman
topics curious exciting
I feel like if you read something, and it makes you so curious about a topic that you then go read something else, that's exciting. Curtis Sittenfeld
topics constitution economy
If you are a friend of the Constitution as I am, I hope you will consider engaging me in the topics of my posts whether you agree or disagree with my position on a particular subject. John Jay Hooker
topics poor should
Let us waive that agitated national topic, as to whether such multitudes of foreign poor should be landed on our American shores;let us waive it, with the one only thought, that if they can get here, they have God's right to come. Herman Melville
topics size survivor
In the 1950s, I proposed the survivor method of determining the efficient sizes of enterprises, and worked on delivered price systems, vertical integration, and similar topics. George Stigler
topics boring ireland
There is no topicmore soporific and generally boring than the topic of Ireland as Ireland, as a nation. Ezra Pound