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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.
writing-history needs historian
History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten. George Santayana
lightning awful
Life, struck sharp on death, Makes awful lightning. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
lightning brilliant disappear
The more brilliant the lightning, the quicker it disappears. Avicenna
lightning process rod turkish turned
The process of Turkish accession has turned into a lightning rod for other discontent, Jack Straw
lightning seen
Early impressions are like glimpses seen through the window by night when lightning is about. E. F. Benson
lightning time-passes knows
Time passes by like lightning. Before you know it you're struck down. Billie Joe Armstrong
lightning maybe strike strikes
So maybe lightning will strike before lightning strikes me. Harry Harrison
lightning crash thunder
If you ride like lightning, you're gonna crash like thunder. Ben Mendelsohn
lightning people percent problem wish
The problem with lightning is, it kills 10 percent of the people it strikes. The 90 percent that live wish they didn't.
lightning severe sure
We're not sure of the cause, but there was severe lightning in the area.