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  • William Golding The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's written it.
    William Golding
    British writer (1911 - 1993)
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  • Harry Mathews There are many things I’ve written that I didn’t really understand until a long time later.
    Harry Mathews
    American writer (1930 - 2017)
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  • William Hazlitt There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • A. S. Byatt There are things that happen and leave no discernible trace, are not spoken of or written of, though it would be wrong to say that subsequent events go on indifferently, all the same, as though such things had never been.
    Possession (1990) Postscript, Page 50
    A. S. Byatt
    English novelist and poet (1936 - )
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  • Henry van Dyke There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart; never to believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true; and never to tell that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary, and that God is listening while you tell it.
    Henry van Dyke
    American Protestant Clergyman and Writer (1852 - 1933)
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  • H.G. Wells There comes a moment in the day when you have written your pages in the morning, attended to your correspondence in the afternoon, and have nothing further to do. Then comes that hour when you are bored; that's the time for sex.
    H.G. Wells
    British-born American author (1866 - 1946)
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  • Adrian Edmondson There is a lot of rubbish written about toilet humour - people saying it is childish and pretending it is beneath them - but there is no doubting the effectiveness of a really good willy gag.
    Adrian Edmondson
    British actor (1957 - )
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  • Carl Sandburg There is a warning love sends and the cost of it is never written till long afterward.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Oscar Wilde There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
    The picture of Dorian Gray
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Allen Tate There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago.
    Allen Tate
    American poet and essayist (1899 - 1979)
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  • Betty Wright There's always a time when you think you've done your last song or you've written your last rap or, you know, people are not checking for you.
    Betty Wright
    American singer (1953 - 2020)
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  • Ray Charles There's nothing written in the Bible, Old or New testament, that says, ''If you believe in Me, you ain't going to have no troubles.
    Ray Charles
    American singer, songwriter, pianist and composer (1918 - 2015)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller This book is written with the conviction that there are no 'good' or 'bad' people, no matter how offensive or eccentric to society they may seem... You and I didn't design people. God designed people. What I am trying to do is to discover why God included humans in Universe.
    Critical Path (1981)
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Karl Kraus This is something that I cannot get over - that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a work could be built on the quicksand of a character.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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  • Carol Ann Duffy This is the word tightrope. Now imagine
    a man, inching across it in the space
    between our thoughts. He holds our breath. There is no word net. You want him to fall, don't you?
    I guessed as much; he teeters but succeeds.
    The word applause is written all over him.
    Standing Female Nude (1985)
    Carol Ann Duffy
    British poet and playwright (1955 - )
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  • Arthur Golden This time all the historical details and things were right. But I'd written it again in third person, and people found it dry. I decided to throw that one away.
    Arthur Golden
    American writer (1956 - )
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  • Charles Baudelaire To be just, that is to say, to justify its existence, criticism should be partial, passionate and political, that is to say, written from an exclusive point of view, but a point of view that opens up the widest horizons.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Buddy Rich To have everything written for you... It's not really creating. That's why I think symphony drummers are so limited. They 're limited to exactly what was played a hundred years before them by a thousand other drummers.
    Buddy Rich
    American jazz drummer and bandleader (1917 - 1987)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Pliny the Elder True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read; and in so living as to make the world happier and better for our living in it.
    Pliny the Elder
    Roman author, naturalist and natural (23 - 79)
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