If Americans knew how to deal with other people, they could bring peace to the world. Alas, they have not learned enough yet. The true American feels that he is 100 percent welcome anywhere he goes. ~Nguyen Cao Ky
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Be diligent, and God will send profit. ~Arabic Proverb
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He who wishes to talk well must first think well. ~Proverb
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If his mouth were silent another part of him would speak. ~Arabic Proverb
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Speak the truth, but leave immediately after. ~Slovenian Proverb
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Do not speak unless you can improve on the silence. ~Spanish Proverb
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I had got this far, and was thinking of what to say next, and as my habit is, I was pricking the paper idly with my pen. And I thought how, between one dip of the pen and the next, time goes on, and I hurry, drive myself, and speed toward death. We are always dying. I while I write, you while you read, and others while they listen or stop their ears, they are all dying. ~Petrarch
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I failed at the biggest things there are in life. I failed in my health, I failed in my marriage, I failed in everything, and I have picked myself up and gone on. ~Sharon Stone
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Winter bites with its teeth or lashes with its tail. ~Montenegrin Proverb
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Love, pregnancy and riding on a camel cannot be hid. ~Arabic Proverb
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As a writer, I demand the right to write any character in the world that I want to write. I demand the right to be them, I demand the right to think them and I demand the right to tell the truth as I see they are. ~Quentin Tarantino
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A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor. ~English Proverb
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The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour. ~Japanese Proverb
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I don't usually think of my writing as a "challenge" because I enjoy the process so much. I suppose that's what's helped me to avoid "writer's block" all these years. ~Melody Carlson
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Do not speak of secrets in a field that is full of little hills. ~Hebrew Proverb
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Hope springs eternal. ~American Proverb
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Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it. ~J. G. Ballard
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I want to write the sort the book that my people want to read, even if the market is small. ~Robert Dessaix
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Men easily believe what they want to. ~Latin Proverb
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If you have someone in your life that you are grateful for, someone to whom you want to write another heartfelt, slanted, misspelled thank you note, do it. Tell them they made you feel loved and supported. That they made you feel like you belonged somewhere and that you were not a freak. Tell them all of that. Tell them today. ~Lisa Jakub
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Whose diggeth a pit shall fall therein. ~Proverb
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A dimple on the chin, the devil within. ~Gaelic Proverb
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The style developed over decades, really, but I started out writing pretty traditional stories, then became impatient. It was a writer named Russell Edson who showed me that one could write in any way at all. ~Lydia Davis
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A family with an old person has a living treasure of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
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It is better to practice a little than talk a lot. ~Zen Proverb
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