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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.
prison
Are there no prisons?
prison
Veels vithin veels, a prison in a prison.
prison sincere pardon
Pardon ever follows sincere repentence. Charles Spurgeon
prison insidious vendetta
Happiness is the most insidious prison of all. Alan Moore
prison
There are worse prisons than words. Carlos Ruiz Zafon
prisoner our-time
We are all prisoners of our time and place. David Henry Hwang
prison pops call-me
If I pop everyone who calls me a diva then I'm going to spend the rest of my life in prison. Chaka Khan
prisoner conscience
One prisoner of conscience is one too many. Aung San Suu Kyi
prison contempt jailer
Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer. Brendan Behan
regimes teach palestinian
I can’t on my own change the regime in South Africa or teach the Palestinians to learn to live with the Israelies, but I can start with me. River Phoenix
regimes bases disarmament
I abhor Saddam's regime, but the basis has to be disarmament. Tony Blair