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Unfortunately I think that the young people must feel they are held in contempt by the president and not heard by him. Bruno Julliard
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Contempt is not a thing to be despised. Edmund Burke
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There are some of his sayings which show him to have been a devout Jew, others that he wished to destroy Judaism, others showing that he held all people except the Jews in contempt and that the wished to save no others, others showing that he wished Robert Ingersoll
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I can't hold too much contempt for him, because naturally he would be disappointed. Danny Green
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Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither feeling is quite within our control Arthur Schopenhauer
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I think throughout the 20th century, for some reason, serious writers increasingly had contempt for the average reader. You can really see this in the letters of such people as Joyce and Virginia Woolf. Michel Faber
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I grew up to have my father's looks- my father's speech patterns-my father's posture- my father's opinions and my mother's contempt for my father Jules Feiffer
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If they haven't gone back to work by Thursday, then we're going to have a very significant penalty phase to deal with. The longer the strike goes, obviously the more serious the contempt is.
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Nabokov, who I loved more than any other writer when I was young, had such contempt for dialogue. When I was younger, I never wrote a word of dialogue because of him. I thought it was a childish part of a novel. Zadie Smith
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Can you suppose there's any harm in looking as cheerful and being as cheerful as our poor circumstances will permit? Charles Dickens
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Have I yet to learn that the hardest and best-borne trials are those which are never chronicled in any earthly record, and are suffered every day!
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Trifles make the sum of life.
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Everybody said so. Far be it from me to assert that what everybody says must be true. Everybody is, often, as likely to be wrong as right.
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A word in earnest is as good as a speech.
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Anything that makes a noise is satisfactory to a crowd.
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Surprises, like misfortunes, seldom come alone.
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Captain Cuttle, like all mankind, little knew how much hope had survived within him under discouragement, until he felt its death-shock.
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The words you say never live up to the words in your head. Chris Cornell
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Say what you have to say in the fewest possible words. Arthur Bryant
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If we as writers could predict what readers grab on to, we would write it. Lois Lowry
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I think that fiction writers can write about anyone. If you are writing a character, and the only thing they are to you is their otherness, then you haven't written a character.
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If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works. John Dos Passos
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'Monty Python' and 'The Simpsons' have ruined comedy for writers for the rest of our lives. Scott Adsit
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What I try to capture as a writer is the feeling of being alive, of being awake. Jenny Offill
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Scottish writers are particularly successful in the crime genre. Sara Sheridan
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I could never be the kind of writer who went to the set of the movie and fussed and fretted about, 'Oh, that dialogue's wrong,' or 'That character doesn't look like that.' That would be insufferable. Alan Moore
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Well, you know, writers just suck up new experiences - we're just like the vacuum cleaners of newness. Charlaine Harris
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I write in a journal first, briefly. Then read something I've read many times before, for about half an hour, then rework what I wrote the day before. Kent Haruf
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Writing is the hardest thing I know, but it was the only thing I wanted to do. I wrote for 20 years and published nothing before my first book.
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I wrote my first short story in third grade. Jennifer McMahon
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I wrote my first novel, 'Deadline,' in 1994 as an experiment. Randy Alcorn
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I wrote it to show that not all mother-in-laws are bad. Carlos Fuentes
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I wrote it just to get my father's attention, John Prine
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I wrote a novel. It's called 'The Middlesteins.' It's fiction. It's not a memoir. I'm not a spokesperson. Jami Attenberg
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That's what I thought when I wrote it,
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I was a writer for hire. I wrote to pay the bills. Damien Chazelle