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  • Sean O'Casey Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow - security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.
    Sean O'Casey
    Irish Dramatist (1880 - 1964)
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  • Alexander Herzen Would it be possible to stand still on one spot more majestically - while simulating a triumphant march forward - than it is done by the two English Houses of Parliament?
    Alexander Herzen
    Russian journalist and political thinker (1812 - 1870)
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  • Katherine Mansfield Would you not like to try all sorts of lives - one is so very small - but that is the satisfaction of writing - one can impersonate so many people.
    Katherine Mansfield
    New Zealand-born British Author (1888 - 1923)
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  • Carol Shields Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find.
    Carol Shields
    American-born Canadian novelist (1935 - 2003)
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  • Francoise Sagan Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary.
    Francoise Sagan
    French writer (1935 - 2004)
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  • Iris Murdoch Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.
    Iris Murdoch
    Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher (1919 - 1999)
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  • Bonnie Jo Campbell Writing is so wrapped up in ego, but with math one is just trying to get it right, although you're often wrong. I think math helped me become a good critic of myself, come at writing a little less personally.
    Bonnie Jo Campbell
    American writer
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  • Jules Renard Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
    Jules Renard
    French writer (1864 - 1910)
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  • J. P. Donleavy Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.
    J. P. Donleavy
    Irish/American novelist and playwright (1926 - 2017)
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  • John F. Kennedy Written in Chinese, the word crisis, is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represent opportunity.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Billy Gardell Yeah, I've done Jim Breuer's radio show a couple times, and I heard from Larry the Cable Guy when I got 'Mike & Molly,' wishing me congratulations. I'm always the last one to the party, man. But that's okay. I got there.
    Billy Gardell
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1969 - )
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  • Malcolm X Yes, I'm an extremist. The Black race here in North America is in extremely bad condition. You show me a Black man who isn't an extremist and I'll show you one who needs psychiatric attention.
    The Autobiography of Malcolm X (2015)
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • J. Martin Kohe Yes, we are all different. Different customs, different foods, different mannerisms, different languages, but not so different that we cannot get along with one another. If we will disagree without being disagreeable.
    J. Martin Kohe
    American self-help author
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  • John Adams Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, ''that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.''
    John Adams
    President of the USA (2nd) (1735 - 1826)
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  • Bill Engvall Yesterday, my son was out in the yard playing with his friend, and he hit his friend. I walked up to him, and I said, Hey... (pantomimes hitting his son) We don't hit. He looked at me like, Here's your sign, Dad.
    Heres Your Sign
    Bill Engvall
    American comedian and actor (1957 - )
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  • Sir Isaac Newton Yet one thing secures us what ever betide, the scriptures assures us the Lord will provide.
    Sir Isaac Newton
    British scientist, mathematician (1643 - 1727)
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  • Richard Nixon Yet we can maintain a free society only if we recognize that in a free society no one can win all the time. No one can have his own way all the time, and no one is right all the time.
    Richard Nixon
    American president (1913 - 1994)
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  • Boris Kodjoe Yet, that's what studios do. If one thing works, they'll keep doing it till it runs its course and people aren't interested anymore.
    Boris Kodjoe
    Austrian-American actor, producer (1973 - )
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  • Billy Dee Williams You are always going to have people criticizing, in one way or another, for their own personal reason.
    Billy Dee Williams
    American actor, voice actor, and artist (1937 - )
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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought.
    The White Company (1891)
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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