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A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again.
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A great amount has been talked and written about what constitutes a sufficient balance and what really is meant by the concepts of 'balance' and 'deterrence'.
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A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written.
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A lot of the tabloid stories are written so well, they're very clever and very funny. But you have to focus on what's really important and not read them - don't dive into it and don't get caught up in it.
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A man who publishes his letters becomes a nudist - nothing shields him from the world's gaze except his bare skin. A writer, writing away, can always fix himself up to make himself more presentable, but a man who has written a letter is stuck with it for all time.
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A memorandum is not written to inform the reader, but to protect the writer.
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A modern-day Dickens with a popular voice and a genius for storytelling in any genre, Stephen King has written many wonderful books.
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A politicians willingness to listen to good advice rises in inverse proportion to how badly he thinks he is doing.
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A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.
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A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
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A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high virtues of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation.
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A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.
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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.
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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the
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After I had written seventeen full-length mysteries, two volumes of mini-mysteries, a travel guide and some quiz books, not to mention a spin-off Roman Mystery Scrolls series, I thought it was time I moved to new historical pastures.
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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard only one side of the case; God has written all the books.
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An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth nothing. I have a mind to fill this with profitable wonders.
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