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«Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind.»
Author: Catherine Drinker Bowen
(Writer)
| About:
Writing
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«?We know all too little about the factors that affect the attitudes of the peoples of the world toward one another. It is clear, however, that color and race are at once the most important and the most enigmatic.?»
«The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.»
«The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Action,
Possibility
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«When things go wrong, you'll find they usually go on getting worse for some time; but when things once start going right they often go on getting better and better.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
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«What if a demon were to creep after you one night, in your loneliest loneliness, and say, 'This life which you live must be lived by you once again and innumerable times more; and every pain and joy and thought and sigh must come again to you, all in the same sequence. The eternal hourglass will again and again be turned and you with it, dust of the dust!' Would you throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse that demon? Or would you answer, 'Never have I heard anything more divine'?»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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«We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
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«When you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
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«The United States is like giant boiler. Once the fire is lighted under it, there is no limit to the power it can generate.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
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