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William Styron: Let's face it,...

William Styron: Let's face it,...

Let's face it, writing is hell.

Source: Interview in Writers at Work (First...

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Brian Moore: When you're a...

Brian Moore: When you're a...

When you're a writer you no longer see things with the freshness of the normal person. There are always two figures...

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Mordecai Richler: Fundamentally, all writing...

Mordecai Richler: Fundamentally, all writing...

Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here,...

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Mordecai Richler: Coming from Canada,...

Mordecai Richler: Coming from Canada,...

Coming from Canada, being a writer and Jewish as well, I have impeccable paranoia...

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Angus Wilson: I have no...

Angus Wilson: I have no...

I have no concern for the common man except that he should not be so common.

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George Moore: A man travels...

George Moore: A man travels...

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it.

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Rachel Field: I used to...

Rachel Field: I used to...

I used to think I had ambition . . . but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily...

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Rufus Choate: Neither irony or...

Rufus Choate: Neither irony or...

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Daniel Webster: Failure is more...

Daniel Webster: Failure is more...

Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.

Source: In The...

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Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev: One sits the...

Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev: One sits the...

One sits the whole day at the desk and appetite is standing next to me. Away with you, I say. But Comrade Appetite...

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Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev: Whatever else may...

Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev: Whatever else may...

Whatever else may divide us, Europe is our common home; a common fate has linked us through the centuries, and it...

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Pierre Elliott Trudeau: Living next to...

Pierre Elliott Trudeau: Living next to...

Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the...

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Adam Clayton Powell: Freedom is an...

Adam Clayton Powell: Freedom is an...

Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Source: In...

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Margaret Chase Smith: One of the...

Margaret Chase Smith: One of the...

One of the basic causes for all the trouble in the world today is that people talk too much and think too little. They...

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Boris Yeltsin: It is especially...

Boris Yeltsin: It is especially...

It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new...

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Boris Yeltsin: A government is...

Boris Yeltsin: A government is...

A government is not an old pair of socks that you throw away.

Source: In The...

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Chester A Arthur: Since I came...

Chester A Arthur: Since I came...

Since I came here I have learned that Chester A. Arthur is one man and the President of the United States is...

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Chester A Arthur: Well, there doesn't...

Chester A Arthur: Well, there doesn't...

Well, there doesn't seem anything else for an ex-President to do but to go into the country and raise big...

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James Madison: If men were...

James Madison: If men were...

If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal...

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Philip Sidney: All is but...

Philip Sidney: All is but...

All is but lip-wisdom which wants experience.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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