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If you can’t learn to do it well, learn to enjoy doing it badly.
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Show me one thing here on earth which has begun well and not ended badly. The proudest palpitations are engulfed in a sewer, where they cease throbbing, as though having reached their natural term: this downfall constitutes the heart's drama and the negative meaning of history.
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A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.
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Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
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Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of the character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning.
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Good novels are not written by orthodoxy-sniffers, nor by people who are conscience-stricken about their own orthodoxy. Good novels are written by people who are not frightened.
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If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written.
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Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap. Let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges. Let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in the courts of justice. And, in short, let it become the political religion of the nation.
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Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.
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Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Our great men have written words of wisdom to be used when hardship must be faced. Life obliges us with hardship so the words of wisdom shouldn't go to waste.
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Some racists still reject the plain testimony written in the DNA that all the races are not only human but nearly indistinguishable.
Source: Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (2011) 467 -
The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.
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The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
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An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
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'Diary of a Teenage Girl' was my first American movie. It was my first movie in an American accent. It's based on a graphic novel, which was written in 2002 by someone called Phoebe Gloeckner. It was turned into a play by Marielle Heller, who then wrote it as a screenplay for Sundance Labs.
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'Groundhog Day' was one of the greatest scripts ever written. It didn't even get nominated for an Academy Award.
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'Sunspring,' the first known screenplay written by an AI, was produced recently. It is awesome. Awesomely awful. But it's worth watching all ten minutes of it to get a taste of the gap between a great screenplay and something an AI can currently produce.
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'The Mary Tyler Moore Show' was the best television, the best cast, the best-written television show ever.
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