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Abraham Lincoln: Towering genius disdains...

Abraham Lincoln: Towering genius disdains...

Towering genius disdains a beaten path.

Source: Address at Young Men's Lyceum,...

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John: You get to...

John: You get to...

You get to thinking that because you've written 50 or 100 songs, you think maybe you know how to do it. But when...

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John: I could never...

John: I could never...

I could never teach a class on songwriting. I'd tell them to goof off and find a good...

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John: Soon as I...

John: Soon as I...

Soon as I could play one guitar chord and laid my ear upon that wood, I was gone. My soul was sold. Music was...

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Jean-Paul Sartre: If literature isn't...

Jean-Paul Sartre: If literature isn't...

If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.

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Ann (and Jane) Taylor: Twinkle, twinkle, little...

Ann (and Jane) Taylor: Twinkle, twinkle, little...

Twinkle, twinkle, little star
How I wonder what you are,
Up above the world so high,
Like a diamond in the...

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Ann (and Jane) Taylor: One ugly trick...

Ann (and Jane) Taylor: One ugly trick...

One ugly trick has often spoiled
The sweetest and the best;
Matilda, though a pleasant child,
One ugly trick...

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August Wilson: I found out...

August Wilson: I found out...

I found out life's hard but it ain't impossible.

Source: West, in Two Trains...

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John Ford: Honour,<br>How much we...

John Ford: Honour,
How much we...

Honour,
How much we fight with weakness to preserve thee.


Source: The Broken...

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Thomas Middleton: Have you summoned...

Thomas Middleton: Have you summoned...

Have you summoned your wits from woolgathering?

Source: The Family of Love, act 5,...

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Thomas Middleton: There's no hate...

Thomas Middleton: There's no hate...

There's no hate lost between us.

Source: The Witch, act 4, sc. 3, 1627.
--...

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Pierre de Beaumarchais: Be commonplace and...

Pierre de Beaumarchais: Be commonplace and...

Be commonplace and creeping, and you will be a success.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Beth Henley: And all writing...

Beth Henley: And all writing...

And all writing is creating or spinning dreams for other people so they won't have to bother doing it...

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Aristophanes: Wise people, even...

Aristophanes: Wise people, even...

Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

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Menander: Nothing is more...

Menander: Nothing is more...

Nothing is more useful than silence.

Source:
-- Menander, ( 342-292BC), Greek...

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Jules Renard: Writing is the...

Jules Renard: Writing is the...

Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.

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Tennessee Williams: If the writing...

Tennessee Williams: If the writing...

If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.

Source:...

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Maurice Maeterlinck: Our reason may...

Maurice Maeterlinck: Our reason may...

Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from...

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Samuel Foote: When house and...

Samuel Foote: When house and...

When house and land are gone and spent,
Then learning is most excellent.


Source:...

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Martial: A good man...

Martial: A good man...

A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past life is to...

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