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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.
absurd aware room
When you take a character seriously, there's more room for comedy because you're not aware of how absurd you are. Robin McLeavy
absurd advocate einstein expressed good great ideas notion similar
Einstein was a great advocate of the notion that good ideas look absurd at the beginning. Camus expressed a similar view. Michael Leunig
absurd bills federal government next orleans pays unless unlikely
unless the federal government adopts New Orleans as its ward and pays all its bills for the next 20 years--an unlikely to absurd proposition--the place won't be rebuilt. Dennis Hastert
absurd bit easily everyday life pull routines seems stuck wakes weird wider
I think we get stuck in routines so easily that when an absurd moment in life seems to be there for no reason, it wakes you up out of your everyday pattern. You pull back and look at life a little bit wider because of that one weird thing you weren't expecting. Kurt Braunohler
absurdity came joke life lives order smell
I was writing this really long joke about the smell of poop, and I was like, 'What am I doing with my life?' I started to think about why I was a comedian, and then I came up with a reason for existence, which is: inserting absurdity or stupidity into strangers' lives in order to make the world a better place.
absurd good job
I like that feeling of discombobulation that comes in creating an absurd world that doesn't make sense. 'Monty Python' does a good job of it; 'Bugs Bunny,' too. Reggie Watts
absurd anne grew jane loving
Like everyone else, I grew up loving the Anne books, but L.M. Montgomery is so much more. Like Jane Austen, she has an eye for the absurd and a gift for the 'mot juste.' Lauren Willig
absurd cartoonist clown comic outside seems sort
It seems so absurd to get really mad with a cartoonist over a comic strip. It's sort of like getting in a fight with a circus clown outside your house. It's not going to end well. Stephan Pastis
absurd business characters feature half identify japanese mad point related role scripts sent
About half the scripts sent to me feature characters I just can't identify with, particularly one-dimensional businessmen or, if it's a comedy, some absurd 10-year-old Japanese stereotype, some role related to IT or business... There's no point in getting mad about it; it's just the way things are. Ken Watanabe
situation tough
We're in a tough situation right now. We'll find out what we're made of. Gary Williams
situation time
We're in a situation where time is of the essence, Herman Edwards
situation strong
We're in a situation now where you have to play it out and fortunately we have very strong contingency plans. Dennis Kavelman
situation our-lives
There is something in even the darkest situations that we can make a positive in our lives. Deborah Norville
situation
Forgiveness doesn't make the situation OK, it makes you OK. Beth Moore
situation turn
We got to this situation not overnight. We're not going to turn it around overnight.
situation findings happens
I set up situations that involve abandoning control and finding out what happens. Brian Eno
situation
Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.
situation step
This was a situation where everybody's got to step up and do what they do.