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writing perfect limelight
Time is the best author. It always writes the perfect ending. Charlie Chaplin
writing dinner feels
Unless I write every day, I don't feel I deserve my dinner.
writing use different
Writing music uses a whole different process that involves a lot of noodling and just seeing what comes. Charles de Lint
writing play careers
I never even considered writing a career option. I just liked the play of words. I was certainly interested in story, but the stories I was telling then were in narrative verse and prose poems, short and succinct, except for one novel-length poem written in narrative couplets.
writing paper remember
The thing to remember when you're writing is, it's not whether or not what you put on paper is true. It's whether it wakes a truth in your reader.
writing might-use giving
The thing to remember when you're writing," he said, " is, it's not whether or not what you put on paper is true. It's whether it wakes a truth in your reader. I don't care what literary device you might use, or belief systems you tap into--if you can make a story true for the reader, if you can give them a glimpse into another way of seeing the world, or another way that they can cope with their problems, then that story is a succes.
writing character knows
I find the characters in my head and the more I write about them, the better I get to know them.
writing each-day next
The excitement I get from writing is finding out each day what happens next.
writing world curtains
I always feel that there is a curtain, you know, that if I could just peek behind the curtain I'd see how the world really works. And since I haven't had it I have to write about it instead.
hands voice storm
I love this world," he added. "That is what rules my life. When I die, I want to have done all in my power to leave it in a better state than it was when I found it. At the same time I know that this can never be. The world has grown so complex that one voice can do little to alter it any longer. That doesn't stop me from doing what I can, but it makes the task hard. The successes are so small, the failures so large and many. It's like trying to stem a storm with one's bare hands.
hands world ifs
if the world go wrong, it was, in some off-hand manner, never meant to go right. Charles Dickens
hands feelings excess
The victims of ennui paralyze all the grosser feelings by excess, and torpify all the finer by disuse and inactivity. Disgusted with this world, and indifferent about another, they at last lay violent hands upon themselves, and assume no small credit for the sang froid with which they meet death. But, alas! such beings can scarcely be said to die, for they have never truly lived. Charles Caleb Colton
hands class two
Literature has her quacks no less than medicine, and they are divided into two classes; those who have erudition without genius, and those who have volubility without depth; we shall get second-hand sense from the one, and original nonsense from the other.
hands sorrow tears
If I dropped a tear upon your hand, may it wither it up! If I spoke a gentle word in your hearing, may it deafen you! If I touched you with my lips, may the touch be poison to you! A curse upon this roof that gave me shelter! Sorrow and shame upon your head! Ruin upon all belonging to you!
hands feet office
Skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape.
hands library grew
I grew up on second hand bookshops and libraries. Charles Stross
hands soul half
I would rather lay my soul asoak in half a dozen verses [of the Bible] all day than rinse my hand in several chapters. Charles Spurgeon
hands despair rope
Faith has a saving connection with Christ. Christ is on the shore, so to speak, holding the rope, and as we lay hold of it with the hand of our confidence, He pulls us to shore; but all good works having no connection with Christ are drifted along down the gulf of fell despair.
solitude isolation conceit
Isolation breeds conceit. Charles Dudley Warner
solitude faces events
In the tumult of great events, solitude was what I hoped for. Now it is what I love. How is it possible to be contented with anything else when one has come face to face with history? Charles de Gaulle
solitude littles noise
Little as she was addicted to solitude, there had come to be moments when it seemed a welcome escape from the empty noises of her life. Edith Wharton
solitude crowds hours
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily. Arthur Brisbane
solitude black males
I always tell my students that Malcolm X came both to his spirituality and to his consciousness as a thinker when he had solitude to read. Unfortunately, tragically, like so many young black males, that solitude only came in prison. bell hooks
solitude sage beast
He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything. Baltasar Gracian
solitude company
I myself am best When least in company. William Shakespeare
solitude has-beens
I had as lief have been myself alone.
solitude peculiar thrones
Grand, gloomy, and peculiar, he sat upon the throne a sceptred hermit, wrapped in the solitude of his own originality. Charles Phillips