![[You write out of the] desire to seem clever, to be talked about, to be remembered after death, etc., etc., etc. It is humbug to pretend this is not a motive and a strong one.](/assets/img/quote-photos/you-write-out-of-the-desire-to-seem-clever-to-be-talked-about-to-be-remembere.jpg)
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strong guarantees-that leader
My hope that the Church will emerge as a strong leader in society is just that a hope. What I described in The Catholic Moment is not a prophecy but the outline of a possibility. There are no guarantees that my hopes expressed in The Catholic Moment will ever be realised. Richard John Neuhaus
strong doubt needs
The story of Doubting Thomas is told, not so that we shall admire Thomas, but so that we can admire the other apostles in comparison. Thomas demanded evidence … The other apostles, whose faith was so strong that they did not need evidence, are held to us as worthy of imitation. Richard Dawkins
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strong intuition instinct
A few strong instincts and a few plain rules. William Wordsworth
strong art fate
As generations come and go, Their arts, their customs, ebb and flow; Fate, fortune, sweep strong powers away, And feeble, of themselves, decay.
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clever cleverness knows nobody
a very clever pick, because nobody knows anything about her.
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People forget how outcast 'They Might Be Giants' can be. They have a reputation for writing really deft, funny, clever melodies, and they also make a lot of music for kids, which is terrific, but when you see them in concert, they can rock the house. John Hodgman
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The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a clever woman to manage a fool Rudyard Kipling
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Subtle, clever brain, wiser than I am, by what devious means do you contrive to remain idle? Teach me, O master. William Williams
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Entropy shakes its angry fist at you for being clever enough to organize the world. (p 2) Brandon Sanderson
clever planning assuming
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clever writing debugging
If you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it? Brian Kernighan
writing play important
Writing is the same as music. It’s in how you phrase it, how you hold back the note, bend it, shape it, then release it. And what you don’t play is as important as what you do say. Robert Creeley
writing people trying
Don't try to write what other people are writing - write what is true to you. Richard Paul Evans
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I have never been able to write with anything more than the left hand of my mind; the right hand has always been engaged in something to do with personal relationships. I don't complain, because I think my left hand's power, as much as it has, is due to its knowledge of what my right hand is doing. Rebecca West
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I really write to find out what I know about something and what is to be known about something.
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The God we worship writes his name upon our faces. Roger Babson