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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.
shut-up showers capacity
I still sing every day - in the shower or on the set all day. I'm sure everyone will tell you that I never shut up. But it's not in the capacity that I would like to. Aaron Tveit
shut-up one-thing
There's only one thing to say to the censors: Shut up. Chris Crutcher
shut-up
There isn't much I have to say, that I wouldn't rather just shut up and do. Ani Difranco
shut-up humming marvin
Marvin started his ironical humming again. Zaphod hit him and he shut up. Douglas Adams
shut-up
I learned that you actually have more power when you shut up. Andy Warhol
shut-up
When you're wrong admit it, when you're right, shut up. Ogden Nash
shut-up ifs
If you can't do, you'd best shut up about it. Esther Forbes
shut-up involved
I finally reached the point where I knew I had to become involved or shut up. Harvey Milk
shut-up
Shut up and say something. Moe Howard