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writing people trying
Richard Paul Evans Don't try to write what other people are writing - write what is true to you.
writing suffering littles
Richard Baxter A little love has made me willingly study, preach, write, and even suffer...
writing emotional rocks
Rex Reed Packs a Huge Emotional Punch! Graceful Writing, Great Acting, Exquisite Direction, Suspense, Profound Subject Matter and It Rocks!
writing race justice
Rebecca West It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to write a historical work. He would then realize that the human race is in quite a jam about truth.
writing fiction half
Rebecca West No one can write a best-seller by taking thought. The slightest touch of insincerity blurs its appeal. The writer who keeps his tongue in his cheek, who knows that he is writing for fools and that, therefore, he had better write like a fool, makes a respectable living out of serials and novelettes; but he will never make the vast, the blaring, half a million success. That comes of blended sincerity and vitality.
writing thinking hands
Rebecca West 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.
writing known knows
Rebecca West I really write to find out what I know about something and what is to be known about something.
writing loss world
Rebecca West It would be no loss to the world if most of the writers now writing had been strangled at birth.
envy causes misery
Samuel Johnson There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.
envy common incessant
Jonathan Swift That incessant envy wherewith the common rate of mankind pursues all superior natures to their own.
envy gossip criticism
Mark Twain Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead.
envy insult accepted
Paulo Coelho The same goes for envy, anger and insults - said the master. - When they are not accepted, they continue to belong to the one who carried them.
envy soul disorder
Plutarch Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.
envy human-nature humans
Monica Bellucci Envy is human nature.
envy pay spurs
John Gay Envy's a sharper spur than pay.
envy may fool
John Gay Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.
envy kind praise
John Gay Envy is a kind of praise.
pity
Gary Barnett Everyone kind of pities us. But I don't want a pity party. I want to play football.
pity poor relation
Arthur Helps They tell us that "Pity is akin to Love;" if so, Pity must be a poor relation.
pity-love words-of-wisdom thank-god
Charles Dickens ... Treachery don't come natural to beaming youth; but trust and pity, love and constancy,-they do, thank God!
pity instinct just-listen
Chris Bosh Just listen to your instincts. Don't talk to someone or start a relationship out of pity.
pity
Marilyn Manson I pity anybody who has to spend a day with me.
pity cruelty casts
Jacqueline Carey When Love cast me out, it was Cruelty who took pity upon me
pity poor feels
Fyodor Dostoevsky I feel pity for him, and that is a poor sign of love.
pity clemency indulgence
Antoine Rivarol In general, indulgence for those we know is rarer than pity for those we know not.
pity sociology
Graham Greene Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.