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• It is only what is written upon the soul of man that will survive the wreck of time.

  Francis James Grimke

  Men, Soul, Wrecks

  Francis James Grimké (1942). “The Works of Francis J. Grimke,̀: Edited by Carter G. Woodson...”

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• I've had offers to sign a record deal, but the people I've talked to have wanted to package me and have me meet with songwriters who've written stuff for Whitney Houston, that sort of thing. That's not at all my style.

  Lukas Haas

  People, Style, Records

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Here is my theory on this one. If you write things down, if there is a mystery and you try and explain it, once you've written it down for permanent, in due time, it'll be proven stupid.

  Joey Santiago

  Stupid, Writing, Trying

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• All good music, whatever its date, is ageless - as alive and significant today as it was when it was written.

  Peter Warlock

  Alive, Today, Significant

  Peter Warlock (1998). “The Occasional Writings of Philip Heseltine (Peter Warlock): Early music”

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• Music is neither old nor modern: it is either good or bad music, and the date at which it was written has no significance whatever.

  Peter Warlock

  Modern, Music Is, Significance

  Peter Warlock (1998). “The Occasional Writings of Philip Heseltine (Peter Warlock): Early music”

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• The moral system of the universe is like a document written in alternate ciphers, which change from line to line.

  James Anthony Froude

  Ciphers, Lines, Morality

  James Anthony Froude (2004). “Short Studies on Great Subjects”, p.6, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• I have grown to believe that there is no dangerous idea, which does not become less dangerous when written out in sincere and careful English.

  William Butler Yeats

  Believe, Ideas, Doe

  William Butler Yeats (2001). “The Major Works”, p.443

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• You have read very good books, I am sure; there is an excellent book however, that never grows old; it is the one that God has written on every plant, on every grain of sand, in yourself; it is the book of Divine love. Give, therefore, your preference to that beautiful book and add to it a few pages of admiration and gratefulness. Read and understand all other books in the light of this one.

  Peter Julian Eymard

  Beautiful, Faith, Inspiration

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• The books I haven't written are better than the books other people have.

  Cyril Connolly

  Work, Book, Writing

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• As far as you can, do some manual work so as to be able to give alms, for it is written that alms and faith purify from sin.

  Poemen

  Giving, Able, Sin

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• The Old Testament contains in many places, but especially in the book of Job, one of the most far-reaching defenses ever written of wilderness, of nature free from the hand of man. The argument gets at the heart of what the loss of nature will mean to us....God seems to be insisting that we are not the center of the universe, that he is quite happy if it rains where there are no people - that God is quite happy with places where there are no people, a radical departure from our most ingrained notions.

  Bill McKibben

  Jobs, Rain, Book

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• Everybody works the same, but the preparation very often may be different. You cannot work differently. You have to say the words that were written on the page, and you have to make your marks. That's the work.

  Morgan Freeman

  Preparation, Different, May

  "Morgan Freeman Talks OBLIVION, Working with Tom Cruise, Being Drawn to Sci-Fi and Technology, Shooting a Dual .50 Caliber Machine Gun and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. April 16, 2013.

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• I felt like 'Life' was a great show. It was really well-written.

  Donal Logue

  Shows, Wells, Felt

  "Donal Logue and Michael Raymond-James Interview TERRIERS". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 7, 2010.

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• I always think it is kind of funny when it comes to wisdom, and I say God has a sense of humor, because my middle name is Solomon, and I love the Book of Proverbs which is written by Solomon, and I have read from the Book of Proverbs to start and end every day since I was 14.

  Benjamin Carson

  Book, Thinking, Names

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Sometimes an idea from six years ago will come to me out of the blue. And maybe I haven't even seen the lyrics I wrote down, but I'll just have this physical memory of having written it, and in my mind I can see the piece of paper, and the words I wrote down, and then by muscle memory, I'll remember the chords that go along with it.

  Ryan Adams

  Memories, Ideas, Blue

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 28, 2007.

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• The weirdest thing I've been fascinated with nowadays is the new contemporary country music, which to me sounds like very strange '70s pop, and sometimes like rock music. But some of the themes in there - maybe it's because I know how the songs were written, but it really does sound like it was written by two or three people, with the idea to appeal to the most general audience.

  Ryan Adams

  Country, Song, Rocks

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 28, 2007.

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• You will have written exceptionally well if, by skilful arrangement of your words, you have made an ordinary one seem original.

  Horace

  Ordinary, Made, Wells

  'Ars Poetica' l. 47

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• Indeed, unless a man can link his written thoughts with the everlasting wants of men, so that they shall draw more from them as wells, there is no more immortality to the thoughts and feelings of the soul than to the muscles and bones.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Feelings, Soul

  Henry Ward Beecher (1855). “Star Papers: Or, Experiences of Art and Nature”, p.54, New York : Boston : J.C. Derby ; Phillips, Sampson & Company

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• The real truthfulness of all works of imagination, sculpture, painting, and written fiction, is so purely in the imagination, that the artist never seeks to represent positive truth, but the idealized image of a truth

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Real, Artist, Imagination

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• No book was ever written down by any but itself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Reputation

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.317, Library of America

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• When I read the rules of criticism, I immediately inquire after the works of the author who has written them, and by that means discover what it is he likes in a composition.

  Joseph Addison

  Mean, Criticism, Likes

  Joseph Addison (1872). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.221

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• There are greater depths and obscurities, greater intricacies and perplexities, in an elaborate and well-written piece of nonsense, than in the most abstruse and profound tract of school divinity.

  Joseph Addison

  School, Profound, Depth

  Joseph Addison (1853). “The Works of Joseph Addison: Including the Whole Contents of Bp. Hurd's Edition, with Letters and Other Pieces Not Found in Any Previous Collection; and Macaulay's Essay on His Life and Works”, p.624

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• A book or poem which has no pity in it had better not be written.

  Oscar Wilde

  Book, Pity

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• I think it must somewhere be written that the virtues of mothers shall be visited on their children, as well as the sins of their fathers.

  Charles Dickens

  Mother, Children, Father

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• Was there ever yet anything written by mere man that was wished longer by its readers, excepting Don Quixote, Robinson Crusoe, and the Pilgrim's Progress?

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Progress, Robinson Crusoe

  In Hester Lynch Piozzi 'Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson' (1786) p. 281

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