Quotes with non-writing-joke

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  • Anthony Holden As somebody who's been writing about this subject for getting on twenty years now, it's astonishing how the climate has changed in the last five years.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • James Baldwin At bottom, to be colored means that one has been caught in some utterly unbelievable cosmic joke, a joke so hideous and in such bad taste that it defeats all categories and definitions.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Bernard Cornwell At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful at the beginning of a writing career.
    Bernard Cornwell
    British author of historical novels (1944 - )
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  • Martin Luther King At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Eugène Ionesco Banality is a symptom of non-communication. Men hide behind their clichés.
    Eugène Ionesco
    Romanian - French writer (1909 - 1994)
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  • Helen Gurley Brown Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.
    Helen Gurley Brown
    American author, publisher and businesswoman (1922 - 2012)
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  • Charles Peters Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof that they were busy.
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  • J. G. Ballard But I wouldn't recommend writing. You can be a successful writer and never meet another soul. I'm not sure that's a good thing.
    J. G. Ballard
    British author (1930 - 2009)
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  • Bruce Springsteen But then I go through long periods where I don't listen to things, usually when I'm working. In between the records and in between the writing I suck up books and music and movies and anything I can find.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Bryan Ferry But when I started writing songs, I stopped painting completely, and the only art things I do are connected to the career, like album sleeves and, to some extent, posters and things like that.
    Bryan Ferry
    English singer and songwriter (1945 - )
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  • Bobby McFerrin But, if there's any aspect of my career that needs attention, it's writing.
    Bobby McFerrin
    American jazz vocalist (1950 - )
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  • Bradley A. Smith By law, super PACs are required to disclose their donors. There are groups that have never had to disclose their donors, non-profits such as the Sierra Club, Planned Parenthood, the NAACP, and the NRA. If you want more disclosure, super PACs are a step forward.
    Bradley A. Smith
    American law professor (1958 - )
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  • Albert Maltz By the time I was at college, I became very alert to the question of racial discrimination, and I remember one of my first writing attempts had to do with a lynching.
    Albert Maltz
    American playwright and fiction writer (1908 - 1985)
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  • George Orwell By the time you have perfected any style of writing, you have always outgrown it.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Louise Erdrich By writing I can live in ways that I could not survive.
    Louise Erdrich
    American author (1954 - )
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  • Berkeley Breathed Cartooning is about deconstruction: you gotta tear something down to make a joke.
    Berkeley Breathed
    American cartoonist, director and screenwriter (1957 - )
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  • William Zinsser Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills and meaningless jargon.
    William Zinsser
    American writer, editor, literary critic, and teacher (1922 - 2005)
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  • Bret Easton Ellis Completely committed to adapting 'Fifty Shades of Grey'. This is not a joke. Christian Grey and Ana: potentially great cinematic characters.
    Bret Easton Ellis
    American author, screenwriter, short-story writer, and director (1964 - )
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  • Malcolm X Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Bono Contrary to reports, this boy is not a billionaire or going to be richer than any Beatle... and not just in the sense of money, by the way; the Beatles are untouchable - those billionaire reports are a joke.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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