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reading writing character
Mr. Pickwick took a seat and the paper, but instead of reading the latter, peeped over the top of it, and took a survey of the man of business, who was an elderly, pimply-faced, vegetable-diet sort of man, in a black coat, dark mixture trousers, and small black gaiters; a kind of being who seemed to be an essential part of the desk at which he was writing, and to have as much thought or sentiment. Charles Dickens
reading believe writing
I have nothing else to tell; unless, indeed, I were to confess that no one can ever believe this narrative, in the reading, more than I have believed it in the writing.
reading writing style
Speech recognition is utterly crap for writing fiction. If you try reading a novel aloud you'll soon figure out why - written prose style is utterly unlike the spoken word. Charles Stross
reading years people
I hear people all the time say, well I read through the Bible last year. Well, so what? I'm all for reading through the Bible. But how much of that got on the inside, or did they just cover three more chapters today? I would never discredit reading the Scriptures, but it is important to meditate on it. Charles Stanley
reading age praying
It is a reading age, a preaching age, a working age, but it is not a praying age. Charles Spurgeon
reading believe water
To believe a thing is to see the cool crystal water sparkling in the cup. But to meditate on it is to drink of it. Reading gathers the clusters; contemplation squeezes forth their generous juice.
reading light giving
Give yourself to reading.’... You need to read. Renounce as much as you will all light literature, but study as much as possible sound theological works, especially the Puritanic writers, and expositions of the Bible.
reading writing impossible
...she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this late stage of her life she had been chosen to read as others were chosen to write. Alan Bennett
reading briefing inviting
Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
literature weapons
My weapon is literature Chinua Achebe
literature easy teach
I teach literature. That's easy for me. Take someone else's work and talk about it.
literature places-to-go needs
There's always some place to go. You don't need workshops, you don't need friends necessarily, you can be befriended by literature itself. Edward Hirsch
literature occupation merit
Such a superiority do the pursuits of literature possess above every other occupation, that even he who attains but a mediocrity in them, merits the pre-eminence above those that excel the most in the common and vulgar professions. David Hume
literature very-happy walkers
I am very, very happy for Alice Walker. Audre Lorde
literature universal-love kinky
We're supposed to see "universal" love as heterosexual. What I insist upon in my work is that there is no such thing as universal love in literature.
literature disease molecules
And what is literature, Rabo," he said, "but an insider's newsletter about affairs relating to molecules, of no importance to anything in the universe but a few molecules who have the disease called 'thought'. Kurt Vonnegut
literature stories guilty
Dan Rather is guilty of not being skeptical enough about a story that was politically loaded. Bill O'Reilly
literature privilege reason
Religion is dogmatic. Politic is ideological. Reason must be logical, but literature has a privilege of being equivocal. Carlos Fuentes
tests firsts calling
The test of a first-rate work, and a test of your sincerity in calling it a first-rate work, is that you finish it. Arnold Bennett
tests rings universe
The universe rings true whenever you fairly test it. C. S. Lewis
tests
We meet all life's greatest tests alone. Agnes Macphail
tests acid failing
Everybody I know fails the acid test of friendship. Bill Watterson
tests faces indifference
The test of an invention is the power of an inventor to push it through in the face of staunch-not opposition, but indifference-in society. Edwin Land
tests doe answers
How to test?" is a question that cannot be answered in general. "When to test?" however, does have a general answer: as early and as often as possible. Bjarne Stroustrup
tests firsts beats
Everything I make as a producer, I visualize it as a DJ first. And all those beats, I test them as a DJ. David Guetta
tests failing explanation
Where we have good, testable explanations, they then have to be tested, and we drop the ones that fail the tests. David Deutsch
tests majority failing
The overwhelming majority of theories are rejected because they contain bad explanations, not because they fail experimental tests.