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writing thinking practice
There are some who write, talk, and think, so much about vice and virtue, that they have no time to practice either the one or the other. Charles Caleb Colton
writing justice add
Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say.
writing first-love should-have
Little Red Riding Hood was my first love. I felt that if I could have married Little Red Riding Hood, I should have known perfect bliss. Charles Dickens
writing names forgiving
Take the pencil and write under my name, 'I forgive her.
writing support events
Dickens writes that an event, "began to be forgotten, as most affairs are, when wonder, having no fresh food to support it, dies away of itself.
writing stories want
Us writers all like each other and want to write stories with each other; we're having a good time. Charles Soule
writing years long
If I write too much of anything for too long, I burn out on it. So it helps to vary my output from year to year. Charles Stross
writing hints facts
If I wanted to be in movies, I'd have gone into scriptwriting: the fact that I write novels should be a big hint about what I prefer to do!
writing ideas stories
Writing your own story around the same ideas is not plagiarism; at worst, it's being unoriginal.
men listening wish
Of all bad listeners, the worst and most terrible to encounter is the man who is so fond of listening that he wishes to hear, not only your conversation, but that of every other person in the room.
men
Poetry's unnat'ral; no man ever talked poetry 'cept a beadle on boxin' day.
men brotherhood common
The more man knows of man, the better for the common brotherhood among men.
men fellow-man spirit
It is required of every man," the ghost returned, "that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellow-men, and travel far and wide; and, if that spirit goes not forth in life, it is condemned to do so after death.
men laughing people
When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.
men judging world
Most men unconsciously judge the world from themselves, and it will be very generally found that those who sneer habitually at human nature, and affect to despise it, are among its worst and least pleasant samples.
men talking two
When we are in the company of sensible men, we ought to be doubly cautious of talking too much, lest we lose two good things, their good opinion and our own improvement; for what we have to say we know, but what they have to say we know not.
men years two
No man can promise himself even fifty years of life, but any man may, if he please, live in the proportion of fifty years in forty-let him rise early, that he may have the day before him, and let him make the most of the day, by determining to expend it on two sorts of acquaintance only-those by whom something may be got, and those from whom something maybe learned.
men two rogues
There are two modes of establishing our reputation; to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues.
ends distress draws
I distress you; I draw fast to an end.
ends
Nothing ends, Adrian. Nothing ever ends. Alan Moore
ends
God and I; here is the beginning and the end of personal religion. Aiden Wilson Tozer
ends whole-life shows
I've always had- how shall I say it? -the prize at the end. My whole life shows that. Audrey Hepburn
ends guys hear industry record talk
When you talk to guys in the record industry you do hear a lot of, 'Wow, she's 30, she's 35,' as if that completely ends any discussion. Sean Ross
ends wells
He hadn't loved me well in the end, but he'd loved me well when it mattered. Cheryl Strayed
ends korea might move perceived political south until
Until South Korea ends its political transition, it might be perceived to be a little unseemly for us (America) to move forward. Richard Foreman
ends feels milestones whether work
All the work that I do, whether or not it ends up being commercially successful or not, feels like the most important thing to me while I'm doing it. I try to take something away from every project, and so they all feel like milestones for one reason or another. Michael Ian Black
ends candle
My candle burns at both ends Edna St. Vincent Millay