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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.
dwarves criminals said
Oh, I'm a dangerous criminal, I am,' said the dwarf cheerfully. C. S. Lewis
dwarves toss faster
We do not allow dwarf tossing. If you toss a dwarf, the dwarf will be tossed right back at you, but faster. Demetri Martin
dwarves long gold
Far over misty mountains cold To dungeons deep and caverns old We must away, ere break of day, To find our long-forgotten gold. J. R. R. Tolkien
dwarves style important
That was Thorin's style. He was an important dwarf. If he had been allowed, he would probably have gone on like this until he was out of breath, without telling anyone there anything that was not known already. But he was rudely interrupted.
dwarves world delving
Far, far below the deepest delvings of the dwarves, the world is gnawed by nameless things.
dwarves sight troll
Trolls simply detest the very sight of dwarves (uncooked).
dwarves explanation halls
And what would you do, if an uninvited dwarf came and hung his things up in your hall without a word of explanation?
dwarves two giants
A Dwarfe on a Gyants shoulder sees further of the two. [A dwarf on a giant's shoulder sees farther of the two. George Herbert
dwarves understanding calling
Calling George Bush shallow is like calling a dwarf short. Molly Ivins
dwarfs giant
Surrounding yourself with dwarfs doesn't make you a giant Yiddish Proverb
dwarfs giant
Surrounding yourself with dwarfs does not make you a giant
dwarfs fertile finding ground hunting including mass planet red similar tip
This new planet may just be the tip of the iceberg. Red dwarfs may be a fertile new hunting ground for finding planets, including ones similar in mass to the earth.
dwarfs free generation hiv known magnitude problem response scale
A whole generation has never known a world free of HIV and Aids, yet the magnitude of the problem dwarfs the scale of the response so far. Ann Veneman