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- "Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music-the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself."
By: Henry Miller Write Quotes
- "In literature, as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others."
By: André Maurois Write Quotes
- "A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be."
By: Abraham Maslow Write Quotes
- "God writes the gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees, and flowers, and clouds, and stars."
By: Martin Luther Write Quotes
- "America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society."
By: Peter Kropotkin Write Quotes
- "If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, "There lived a great people-a black people-who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization."
By: Martin Luther King, Jr. Write Quotes
- "The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it."
By: Omar Khayyám Write Quotes
- "Not only the studying and writing of history but also the honoring of it both represent affirmations of a certain defiant faith-a desperate, unreasoning faith, if you will-but faith nevertheless in the endurance of this threatened world-faith in the total essentiality of historical continuity."
By: George Frost Kennan Write Quotes
- "Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the sense shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness."
By: Helen Adams Keller Write Quotes
- "God writes a lot of comedy the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny."
By: Garrison Keillor Write Quotes
- "Keeping accounts, Sir, is of no use when a man is spending his own money, and has nobody to whom he is to account. You won't eat less beef today, because you have written down what it cost yesterday."
By: Dr. Samuel Johnson Write Quotes
- "We have ignored cultural literacy in thinking about education ... We ignore the air we breathe until it is thin or foul. Cultural literacy is the oxygen of social intercourse."
By: E. D. Hirsch, Jr. Write Quotes
- "If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it . . . write it in the sand near the water's edge."
By: Napolean Hill Write Quotes
- "There are authors who write to communicate, there are authors who write to impress themselves."
By: Mark S. Hertzog Write Quotes
- "I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone else has done though you might have done it if they hadn't."
By: Ernest Miller Hemingway Write Quotes
- "In youth men are apt to write more wisely than they really know or feel; and the remainder of life may be not idly spent in realizing and convincing themselves of the wisdom which they uttered long ago."
By: Nathaniel Hawthorne Write Quotes
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