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Letter "S" » sit down
«Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake.»
Author: E. L. Doctorow
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compose, composition, hazard, sit down, stake
«Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting»
«There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.»
Author: Ernest Hemingway
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bleed, sit, sit down, There Is Nothing, typewriter, typewriters, writing
«We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.»
«Then went Boaz up to the gate, and sat him down there: and, behold, the kinsman of whom Boaz spake came by; unto whom he said, Ho, such a one! turn aside, sit down here. And he turned aside, and sat down.»
«Temperance: Eat and carouse with Bacchus, or munch dry bread with Jesus, but don't sit down without one of the gods.»
«We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it / and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again / and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.»
«The movies enable an actor not only to act but also to sit down in the theater and clap for himself»
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