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WritersDiscover the voices of writers across eras and genres, from novelists and poets to essayists, playwrights, and journalists. Their words trace the craft's daily discipline and restless imagination, the doubts that sharpen ideas, and the courage to tell difficult truths. Whether you seek insight into creativity, reflections on language, or a reminder of storytelling's power to connect us, these quotations offer perspective and companionship. Dip in for a spark of inspiration or linger to find lines that resonate long after reading.
"Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?"
Robert Browning Hamilton, Writer
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"Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop"
H. L. Mencken, Writer
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"Everything is politics"
Thomas Mann, Writer
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"Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts"
Robert Browning Hamilton, Writer
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"How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?"
Dr. Seuss, Writer
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"Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort"
John Ruskin, Writer
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"A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition"
Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer
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"Few people have the imagination for reality"
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer
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"Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there"
Henry James, Writer
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"Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting"
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer
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"Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions"
Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer
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"You can't take a character anywhere they don't expect the character to go. But within those confines is where creativity lies"
Richard Price, Writer
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"The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease"
Voltaire, Writer
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"To the wicked, everything serves as pretext"
Voltaire, Writer
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"Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through"
Jonathan Swift, Writer
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"If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly"
Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer
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"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man"
Elbert Hubbard, Writer
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"Advertising is the art of making whole lies out of half truths"
Edgar A. Shoaff, Writer
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"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong"
H. L. Mencken, Writer
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"The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance"
Thomas Paine, Writer
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"I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself"
David Herbert Lawrence, Writer
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"A person's a person, no matter how small"
Dr. Seuss, Writer
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"It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice"
Jose Rizal, Writer
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"It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver"
Niccolo Machiavelli, Writer
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"If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes"
Lewis Grizzard, Writer
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"That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want police protection from their slaves"
Kim Stanley Robinson, Writer
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"He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home"
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer
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"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened"
Dr. Seuss, Writer
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"If at first you don't succeed, try, try again"
William Edward Hickson, Writer
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"If I love you, what business is it of yours?"
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer
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