Quotes 381 till 400 of 542.
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The human brain is a wonderful organ. It starts to work as soon as you are born and doesn't stop until you get up to deliver a speech.
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The idea that you're not a writer until you're published is a lie.
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The important thing is not to stop questioning.
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The Iranian acquisition of nuclear weapons would be infinitely more costly than any scenario you can imagine to stop it.
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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.
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The key is in remaining just aloof enough from a painting so that you know when to stop.
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The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.
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The men with the muck-rake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck.
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The minute I stop singing orally, I start to sing by playing Lucille.
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The minute I stop singing, I'm back to being shy. I'm soft-spoken because I never really talked to people. I didn't learn to do it.
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The more books we read, the sooner we perceive that the true function of the writer is to produce a masterpiece and that no other task is of any consequence.
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The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it.
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The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities.
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The obituaries shot up to the top of my list when I discovered Robert McG. Thomas, the 'Times' obit writer who redesigned its traditional form and added a measure of stylistic elegance.
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The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.
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The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any.
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The only thing to prevent what's past is to put a stop to it before it happens.
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The proposition that Muslims are welcome in Britain if, and only if, they stop behaving like Muslims is a doctrine which is incompatible with the principles that guide a free society.
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The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
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The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.
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