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american-author angel anybody body hustler internal scribbling traffic wondering writer
Diverting the internal traffic between the Writer as Angel of Light and the Writer as Hustler is that scribbling child in a grown-up body wondering if anybody is listening. Herbert Gold
american-author dogs
The king appeared... with his dogs and sycophants behind him. Kathleen Winsor
american-author belonged except
It was a woman's bedroom, actually a boudoir, and no man belonged in it except by invitation.
american-author fix inferior
When we go out with the idea that we are going to fix somebody, then it communicates to them that they are inferior and it shames them. Keith Miller
american-author
When we go into an industry, we go all the way. Charles Phillips
american-author common frowned praised subversive
Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher. Dan Simmons
american-author stick
We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough. Helen Keller
american-author greatest mind next whether
Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. James Lane Allen
american-author convincing time
At a time like this, scorching iron, not convincing argument, is needed.
book reading writing
There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts. Charles Dickens
book knowledge men
Mathematicians have sought knowledge in figures, Philosophers in systems, Logicians in subtleties, and Metaphysicians in sounds. It is not in any nor in all of these. He that studies only men, will get the body of knowledge without the soul, and he that studies only books, the soul without the body. Charles Caleb Colton
book reading writing
Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority.
book writing companion
With books, as with companions, it is of more consequence to know which to avoid, than which to choose, for good books are as scarce as good companions, and in both instances, all that we can learn from baad ones is, that some much time has been worse than thrown away.
book easy easy-to-get
It is always easy to shut a book, but not quite so easy to get rid of a lettered coxcomb.
book names want
If a book really wants the patronage of a great name, it is a bad book; and if it be a good book, it wants it not.
book writing mirrors
That an author's work is the mirror of his mind is a position that has led to very false conclusions. If Satan himself were to write a book it would be in praise of virtue, because the good would purchase it for use, and the bad for ostentation.
book healing good-friend
Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
book reading fire
It can't be supposed," said Joe. "Tho' I'm oncommon fond of reading, too." Are you, Joe?" Oncommon. Give me," said Joe, "a good book, or a good newspaper, and sit me down afore a good fire, and I ask no better. Lord!" he continued, after rubbing his knees a little, "when you do come to a J and a O, and says you, 'Here, at last, is a J-O, Joe,' how interesting reading is!
single nuts definitions
What's the best way to get a good spouse? The best single way is to deserve a good spouse because a good spouse is by definition not nuts. Charlie Munger
single-mom believe simple
I discovered that when I believed my thoughts, I suffered, but that when I didn’t believe them, I didn’t suffer, and that this is true for every human being. Freedom is as simple as that. I found that suffering is optional. I found a joy within me that has never disappeared, not for a single moment. Byron Katie
single loneliness boys
A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be. Cesare Pavese
single shopping numbers
There is a restless kind of consumer shopping for partners, as if the "right one" can be found by totting up a potential mate's pluses and minuses until the number of pluses matches some mythical standards. Deepak Chopra
single-mom struggle opportunity
Raising a family is difficult enough. But it's even more difficult for single parents struggling to make ends meet. They don't need more obstacles. They need more opportunities. Bill Richardson
single state
There isn't a single scrubber in the state of Maryland. Eric Schaeffer
single touches
They're so long and lanky that they get touches on every single pass.
single
They're going to single one out because it's on Kobe? To me that's a shame. Steve Nash
singles
It was getting late, and No. 1 singles went very long.
syllables
Just get the right syllable in the proper place. Jonathan Swift
syllables
Some syllables are swords. Henry Vaughan