He who wishes to talk well must first think well. ~Proverb
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A hand that is dirty with honest labor is fit to shake with any neighbor. ~Proverb
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If his mouth were silent another part of him would speak. ~Arabic Proverb
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The bad stuff remains with its owner until some fool comes to buy it. ~Arabic Proverb
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A true warrior, like tea, shows his strength in hot water. ~Chinese Proverb
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Speak the truth, but leave immediately after. ~Slovenian Proverb
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Death pays all debts. ~English 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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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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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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She who does not yet know how to walk cannot climb a ladder. ~Ethiopian Proverb
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I never ask God to give me anything; I only ask him to put me where things are. ~Mexican 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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Are you the welcoming committee? Or has Jeremy finally chained you up to the front gate where you belong?" "I missed you too. ~Kelley Armstrong
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The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter. ~Winston Churchill
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A man without religion is like a horse without a bridle. ~Latin Proverb
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A cat bitten once by a snake dreads even rope. ~Arab Proverb
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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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Epigrams succeed where epics fail. ~Persian Proverb
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Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit. The life of a man is three-score years and ten: a little more, a little less. The life of a nation is the fullness of the measure of its will to live. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
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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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I really believed that the priests were acquainted with my thoughts; and often stood in great awe of them. They often told me they had power to strike me dead at any moment. ~Maria Monk
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I was feeling privileged and self-conscious about my life as a musician, which feels self-absorbed. I can't help it, I am a musician. This is what I do. ~Sufjan Stevens
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