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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. Charles Caleb Colton
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. Charles Caleb Colton
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. Charles Caleb Colton
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. Charles Caleb Colton
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. Charles Caleb Colton
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. Charles Caleb Colton
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. Charles Caleb Colton
terrified
We blush very, very easily, and we get terrified of audiences. Jacqueline McKenzie
terrified
Showing a videogame character terrified and scared is something that's not really done that much. Rhianna Pratchett
terrified
I've always been terrified of dying, always. It was a concern of mine long before it had to be. Stanley Elkin
terrified
I am terrified of being misjudged by thousands of faceless Twitterers. Lucy Punch
terrified
I was terrified of getting the chemo. It's not pleasant. And the radiation is not pleasant. Farrah Fawcett
terrified
I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself. Saint Teresa of Avila
terrified
When you spent so much time being terrified that you're going to get something, and then you have it, you don't have to be terrified anymore. Danny Pintauro
terrified
Everyone's terrified of being mediocre. Everyone wants to be special. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
terrified
They are terrified they will make a mistake, John Doran