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  • In the John Paul II days, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger had the advantage of staying in his cupboard - the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith - exchanging views only with the Pope, and speaking publicly only through carefully written missives on doctrinal issues.
  • An equation is the same whether it's written in red or green ink.
  • Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
  • The first duty of the novelist is to entertain. It is a moral duty. People who read your books are sick, sad, traveling, in the hospital waiting room while someone is dying. Books are written by the alone for the alone.
  • No one had written a good long life of Schubert. He had lived long in music and short in life.
  • Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.
  • Attempts to put my poems to music have had disastrous results in all cases. And the poem, if it's written with the ear, already has been set to its own verbal music as it was composed.
  • The greatest of all the Sioux in my time, or in any time for that matter, was that wonderful old fighting man, Sitting Bull, whose life will some day be written by a historian who can really give him his due.
  • Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
  • Every book is like starting over again. I've written books every way possible - from using tight outlines to writing from the seat of my pants. Both ways work.
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  • Colin Wilson A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.
    Colin Wilson
    British writer (1931 - 2013)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Lydia M. Child Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of the character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning.
    Lydia M. Child
    American Abolitionist, Writer, Editor (1802 - 1880)
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  • George Orwell Good novels are not written by orthodoxy-sniffers, nor by people who are conscience-stricken about their own orthodoxy. Good novels are written by people who are not frightened.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Samuel Johnson If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap. Let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges. Let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in the courts of justice. And, in short, let it become the political religion of the nation.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Louis Ferdinand Céline Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.
    Louis Ferdinand Céline
    French writer (1894 - 1961)
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  • Ezra Pound Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • L'Chiam Our great men have written words of wisdom to be used when hardship must be faced. Life obliges us with hardship so the words of wisdom shouldn't go to waste.
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  • Carl Sagan Some racists still reject the plain testimony written in the DNA that all the races are not only human but nearly indistinguishable.
    Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (2011) 467
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Omar Khayyam The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.
    Omar Khayyam
    Persian astronoom, poet (1048 - 1131)
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  • Mark Twain The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
    Following the Equator (1897)
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Samuel Johnson What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Samuel Butler An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Bel Powley 'Diary of a Teenage Girl' was my first American movie. It was my first movie in an American accent. It's based on a graphic novel, which was written in 2002 by someone called Phoebe Gloeckner. It was turned into a play by Marielle Heller, who then wrote it as a screenplay for Sundance Labs.
    Bel Powley
    English actress (1992 - )
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  • Bill Murray 'Groundhog Day' was one of the greatest scripts ever written. It didn't even get nominated for an Academy Award.
    Bill Murray
    American actor, comedian, and writer (1950 - )
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  • Brad Feld 'Sunspring,' the first known screenplay written by an AI, was produced recently. It is awesome. Awesomely awful. But it's worth watching all ten minutes of it to get a taste of the gap between a great screenplay and something an AI can currently produce.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Bob Newhart 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show' was the best television, the best cast, the best-written television show ever.
    Bob Newhart
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1929 - )
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  • Anthony Hope A book might be written on the injustice of the just.
    Anthony Hope
    English writer (1863 - 1933)
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  • Carl Van Doren A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again.
    Carl Van Doren
    American critic and biographer (1885 - 1950)
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