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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.
lovers married being-married
This thing with being lovers, it isn't like being married. Chris Cleave
lovers evolution reverse
My lover is experiencing reverse evolution. Aimee Bender
lovers poet mankind
The poet is the complete lover of mankind. Edith Sitwell
lovers incorrigible adventurer
I'm afraid I'm an incorrigible life-lover, life-wonderer, and adventurer. Edith Wharton
lovers sometimes has-beens
Sometimes your friends are your lovers, or have been at one time. Axl Rose
lovers wives
To our wives and lovers - may they never meet! Unknown
lovers knows drunkards
Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting diety. Alexandre Dumas
lovers what-you-love all-things
Find what you love and let it kill you. For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it’s much better to be killed by a lover. Charles Bukowski
lovers philosopher wonder
Therefore, even the lover of myth is a philosopher; for myth is composed of wonder. Aristotle
essays fine gives hyde lewis poets role society writers written
There are some fine books and essays about that. Lewis Hyde has written about alcoholism and poets and the role that society gives its writers - encouraging them to die. Sharon Olds
essays
My essays . . . come home, to men's business, and bosoms. Francis Bacon
essays freeing
Freeing the World to Death: Essays on the American Empire. William Blum
essays pleased quality seemed top
We were very pleased with all the entries, but the top essays really seemed to have an outstanding quality to them.
essays hope might otherwise
Theological writing is usually done in essays or books, but I hope to show that if we concentrate on sentences, we may well learn something we might otherwise miss. Stanley Hauerwas
essays increasing life talked
I had a book of essays out in 1997 in which I talked about the increasing virtuality of our lives. I've always been afraid of that in my own life. Steven Heighton
essays hate later life might pitch premise realized short spent time until waste worked york
I had an insanely long commute - New York to D.C. - when I worked at 'National Geographic.' I hate to waste time, so I spent my time by writing about my life on the premise that I might be able to pitch those as short essays to magazines. It wasn't until later that I realized that I was writing a book. Charles M. Blow
essays handed joke lecturer university
At university level, I had an economics lecturer who used to joke that I was the only student who handed in essays on British Airways notepaper. Sebastian Coe