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• It is not deeds or acts that last: it is the written record of those deeds and acts.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Records, Deeds, Lasts

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• When the laws are written and administered by the most powerful leaders in a society, it is human nature for them to understand, justify, and protect the interests of themselves and people like them. Many injustices arise from this natural human failing.

  Jimmy Carter

  Powerful, Law, Justice

  Jimmy Carter (2011). “Living Faith”, p.113, Three Rivers Press

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• The spoken discourse may roll on strongly as the great tidal wave; but, like the wave, it dies at last feebly on the sands. It is heard by few, remembered by still fewer, and fades away, like an echo in the mountains, leaving no token of power. It is the written human speech, that gave power and permanence to human thought.

  Albert Pike

  Writing, Echoes, Leaving

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• And this is the way a novel gets written, in ignorance, fear, sorrow, madness, and a kind of psychotic happiness as an incubator for the wonders being born.

  Jack Kerouac

  Ignorance, Joy, Sorrow

  Jack Kerouac (2004). “Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac, 1947-1954”, Viking Press

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• My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying . . . one must ruthlessly suppress everything that is not concerned with the subject. If, in the first chapter, you say there is a gun hanging on the wall, you should make quite sure that it is going to be used further on in the story.

  Anton Chekhov

  Wall, Lying, Gun

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• It seems to me that when I see nature I see it ready-made, completely written - but then, try to do it!

  Claude Monet

  Trying, Made, Difficulty

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• The Bible is not primarily a written or printed text to be scrutinized in private, in a scholar's study or a contemplative cell. It is a body of oral messages, announcements, prophecies, promulgations, recitals, histories, songs of praise, lamentations, etc., which are meant either to be uttered or at least read aloud, or chanted, or sung, or recited in a community convoked for the purpose of a living celebration.

  Thomas Merton

  Song, Cells, Community

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• A farmer's market is worth more than everything I've written.

  Wendell Berry

  Family, Farmers

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• Goals that are not written down and developed into plans are like bullets without powder in the cartridge. People with unwritten goals go through life shooting blanks.

  Brian Tracy

  People, Goal, Shooting

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• I have written my life in small sketches, a little today, a little yesterday... I look back on my life as a good day's work, it was done and I feel satisfied with it. I made the best out of what life offered.

  Grandma Moses

  Good Day, Yesterday, Done

  Moses, Grandma (1952). “Grandma Moses: My Life's History”, New York] : Harper

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• All epoch-making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written, but by the spoken word.

  Adolf Hitler

  Events, Revolutionary, Spoken Word

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• This is the best book ever written by any man on the wrong side of a question of which he is profoundly ignorant.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Book, Men, Ignorant

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• It is often we come the closest to the essence of an artist... in his or her pocket notebooks and travel sketchbooks... where written comments and personal notes provide an intimate insight into the magical mind of a working artist.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Notebook, Artist, Essence

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• The vast majority of fiction is written to markets and to this damnable business we have nowadays of categorizing everything.

  Theodore Sturgeon

  Majority, Fiction, Commerce

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• Failure feelings - fear, anxiety, lack of self-confidence - do not spring from some heavenly oracle. They are not written in the stars. They are not holy gospel. Nor are they intimations of a set and decided fate which means that failure is decreed and decided. They originate from your own mind.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Stars, Spring, Mean

  Maxwell Maltz (2015). “Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded”, p.138, Penguin

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• For a dyed-in-the-wool author nothing is as dead as a book once it is written. ... She is rather like a cat whose kittens have grown up.

  Rumer Godden

  Book, Cat, Writing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm still afflicted with the malady of research. I don't like what I do, and I paint it out, and paint it out again. I hope this mania will come to an end... I'm like a child at school. The white page must always be evenly written and slap! bang! and there's a blot! I'm still blotting and I'm forty years old.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Children, School, Frustration

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• Opinion polls are not worth the paper they are written on, in my view, through the conference season. They don't settle down again until November.

  Norman Tebbit

  Views, Paper, November

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• I see things written about the golf swing that I can't believe will work except by accident .

  Harvey Penick

  Believe, Golf, Swings

  Harvey Penick, Davis Love III (2012). “Harvey Penick's Little Red Book: Lessons And Teachings From A Lifetime In Golf”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• A book may lie dormant for fifty years or for two thousand years in a forgotten corner of a library, only to reveal, upon being opened, the marvels or the abysses that it contains, or the line that seems to have been written for me alone. In this respect the writer is not different from any other human being: whatever we say or do can have far-reaching consequences.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Lying, Book, Years

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• A lot has been written about the merits and problems with detox but it is definitely worth it overall.

  Lee Haney

  Merit, Problem, Has Beens

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• When women do succeed, the press, even the industry press, spend far too much time talking about how we dress, what shoes we're wearing, who we're meant to be seeing. That's pretty sad for women, especially when it's written by women who really should know better.

  Zaha Hadid

  Success, Shoes, Talking

  "I don't do nice" by Jonathan Glancey, www.theguardian.com. October 9, 2006.

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• So no one should rely on television either for their knowledge of music or for news. There's just more going on. It's an adjunct to the written word, which I think is still the most important thing.

  Kurt Loder

  Thinking, Important, News

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• A great amount has been talked and written about what constitutes a sufficient balance and what really is meant by the concepts of "balance" and "deterrence".

  Alva Myrdal

  Balance, Has Beens, Deterrence

  Alva Myrdal's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1982.

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• Sometimes everything has to be inscribed across the heavens so you can find the one line already written inside you.

  David Whyte

  Heaven, Lines, One Line

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