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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.
very-good
I work a lot and I like to get out and work but the work I do to make the other work work I'm not very good at. David Cross
very-good things-happen
Disney is just Disney. It's a company that's very good at what it does - controlling and promoting an image - until something happens that it can't control or cover up. Carl Hiaasen
very-good has-beens
I have been in movies that I thought I wasn't very good in. Christopher Walken
very-good painter
I'm not a very good painter, but I'm learning a lot. Cleo Moore
very-good congressman
I was a very, very good congressman. Dan Maffei
very-good clearing
I have become very good at clearing histories. David Levithan
very-good has-beens
QVC has been very good to me. Barry Manilow
very-good good-place
So let's start at the very begining (a very good place to start...) James St. James
very-good
And when she was good she was very very good. But when she was bad she was horrid. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow