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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.
oppression submit
Oppression cannot prosper where none will submit to be enslaved.
oppression individual states
Statism – the subordination of the individual to the state - leads inevitably to the most hideous oppression. Andrew Bernstein
oppression
Oppression breeds the power to oppose it. Andrew Solomon
oppression cruelty interfere
Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it. Anna Sewell
oppression origin patience preserved qualities
Patience is one of those "feminine" qualities which have their origin in our oppression but should be preserved after our liberation. Simone Beauvoir
oppression prelude regimes
Freedom is not won by merely overthrowing a tyrannical ruler or an oppressive regime. That is usually only the prelude to a new tyranny, a new oppression. Jonathan Sacks
oppression abandonment
To oppression, plundering and abandonment, we respond with life. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
oppression terrorism fascism
Fascism is fascism. Terrorism is terrorism. Oppression is oppression. Harry Belafonte
oppression spoke standing time
It was a time of oppression and you spoke up -- and we won. Without you, I wouldn't be standing up here either. Terrence McNally
ifs
For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere. Alan Watts
ifs keep-going
If something is working, don't fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow. Al Pacino
ifs can-do dies
If you intend to die, you can do anything. Chip Kidd
ifs
If I don't work for a while, I don't work for a while. China Chow
ifs-and perfect what-if
It is too easy to say 'what if' and paint a picture of a perfect world. Darren Shan
ifs
If your words're true, they're armed. David Mitchell
ifs
Nobody can be a success if they don't love their work. David Sarnoff
ifs
If it's not true, don't say it; if it's not right, don't do it. David Puttnam
ifs
If we are to better the future we must disturb the present. Catherine Booth