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  • Peter Ackroyd And when I was young, did I ever tell you, I always wanted to get inside a book and never come out again? I loved reading so much I wanted to be a part of it, and there were some books I could have stayed in for ever.
    First Light (1996) 50
    Peter Ackroyd
    English biographer, novelist and critic (1949 - )
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  • Beau Bridges And when I've been away from my family and friends, I have felt good hearing some of those old songs.
    Beau Bridges
    American actor and director (1941 - )
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • André Malraux And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.
    André Malraux
    French writer and politician (ps. by A. Berger) (1901 - 1976)
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  • John Milton And when night, darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Bertolt Brecht And when she was finished they laid her in earth
    Flowers growing, butterflies juggling over her...
    She, so light, barely pressed the earth down
    How much pain it took to make her as light as that!
    Poems, 1913-1956 To my mother [Meiner Mutter] (May 1920), trans. Jo
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes And when you stick on conversation's burrs, don't strew your pathway with those dreadful urs.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • A. S. Byatt And where may hide what came and loved our clay? as the Poet asked finely.
    Possession (1990) Page 223
    A. S. Byatt
    English novelist and poet (1936 - )
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  • William Shakespeare And where the offence is, let the great axe fall.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Bob Geldof And whereas women had to fight to find their way into the workforce, men are now fighting to reclaim their place in the family structure.
    Bob Geldof
    Irish singer-songwriter, author, political activist (1951 - )
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  • Benjamin Franklin And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Bruce Springsteen And whether you're drawn to gospel music or church music or honky-tonk music, it informs your character and it informs your talent.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Andrew Carnegie And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.
    Andrew Carnegie
    American industrialist (1835 - 1919)
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  • Haniel Long And who is any of us, that without starvation he can go through the kingdoms of starvation?
    Haniel Long
    American writer, poet, journalist (1888 - 1956)
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  • Barbara Bush And who knows? Somewhere out there in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the president's spouse. I wish him well!
    Barbara Bush
    American First Lady (1925 - 2018)
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  • Walt Whitman And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Cassandra Clare And write what you love - don't feel pressured to write serious prose if what you like is to be funny.
    Cassandra Clare
    American author of young adult fiction (1973 - )
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  • Bernard Cornwell And yes, there's a simplicity to writing books because you're not a member of a team, so you make all the decisions yourself instead of deferring to a committee.
    Bernard Cornwell
    British author of historical novels (1944 - )
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  • Lord George Byron And yet a little tumult, now and then, is an agreeable quickener of sensation; such as a revolution, a battle, or an adventure of any lively description.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Arthur Laffer And you can't have a prosperous economy when the government is way overspending, raising tax rates, printing too much money, over regulating and restricting free trade. It just can't be done.
    Arthur Laffer
    American economist and author (1940 - )
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