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• Many were starting to use computerized synthesizers & drum machines to produce an entirely new style of music. It was being punted by the critics that the guitar was old hat; I was reminded of the way my father & his clarinets were written off in the late Fifties.

  Pete Townshend

  Father, Guitar, Style

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• Of all the many memoirs by former Soviet officials, Palazchenko's is among the best written and also the most objective. Even his descriptions of U.S. policy are more accurate and judicious than those of some American scholars.

  Jack F. Matlock, Jr.

  Description, Scholar, Memoir

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• Jeff Selingo is one of the most respected observers of American higher education...Not all will agree with his observations, conclusions, predictions and recommendations, but all will gain from this thoughtful, well-written, provocative volume. I highly recommend it.

  David J. Skorton

  Thoughtful, Gains, Provocative

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• A woman's heart is just like a lithographer's stone; what is once written upon it cannot be rubbed out.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Heart, Stones

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• I have no courage to write much unless I am written to. I soon begin to think that there are plenty of other correspondents more interesting - so if you all want to hear from me you know the conditions.

  George Eliot

  Writing, Thinking, Interesting

  George Eliot (1954). “The George Eliot Letters: 1836-1851”

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• My books don't seem to belong to me after I have once written them; and I find myself delivering opinions about them as if I had nothing to do with them.

  George Eliot

  Book, Opinion, Delivering

  George Eliot (1860). “Life and Letters”, p.398

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• Novels written with film contracts in mind have a faint but unmistakable, and ruinous, odor.

  Annie Dillard

  Mind, Odor, Film

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• Isn't it remarkable how everyone who knew [D.H.] Lawrence has felt compelled to write about him? Why, he's had more books written about him than any writer since Byron!

  Aldous Huxley

  Book, Writing, Byron

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• That author, however, who has thought more than he has read, read more than he has written, and written more than he has published, if he does not command success, has at least deserved it.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Doe, Authorship, Command

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.11

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• I'd rather have written "Cheers" than anything I've written.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Cheer

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• Time has a doomsday book, upon whose pages he is continually recording illustrious names. But as often as a new name is written there, an old one disappears. Only a few stand in illuminated characters never to be effaced.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Book, Character, Names

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1851). “The prose works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.37

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• A coquette is one that is never to be persuaded out of the passion she has to please, nor out of a good opinion of her own beauty: time and years she regards as things that only wrinkle and decay other women, forgetting that age is written in the face, and that the same dress which became her when she was young now only makes her look older.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Passion, Wrinkles, Years

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• I just wish, when neither of us has written to my husband's mother, I didn't feel so much worse about it than he does.

  Katharine Whitehorn

  Mother, Husband, Wish

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• I have found that each of my books has developed out of something I have written in a previous book. Some thought evidently unfinished.

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  Book, Found, Unfinished

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• every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works, yet we require critics to explain the one and biographers to expound the other. That time hangs heavy on people's hands is the only explanation of the monstrous growth.

  Virginia Woolf

  Hands, People, Soul

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.499, Wordsworth Editions

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• if newspapers were written by people whose sole object in writing was to tell the truth about politics and the truth about art we should not believe in war, and we should believe in art.

  Virginia Woolf

  Art, War, Believe

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.853, Wordsworth Editions

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• It doesn't have to be the truth, just your vision of it, written down.

  Virginia Woolf

  Vision

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• Whatever hath been written shall remain,
  Nor be erased nor written o'er again;
  The unwritten only still belongs to thee:
  Take heed, and ponder well what that shall be.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Thee, Authorship, Pondering

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.917, Delphi Classics

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• I suppose I have written novels to find out what I thought about something and poems to find out what I felt about something.

  May Sarton

  Novel, Felt

  May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.26, Open Road Media

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• This suspension of one's own reality, this being entirely alone in a strange city (at times I wondered if I had lost the power of speech) is an enriching state for a writer. Then the written word ... takes on an intensity of its own. Nothing gets exteriorized or dissipated; all is concentrated within.

  May Sarton

  Travel, Reality, Cities

  May Sarton (2014). “I Knew a Phoenix: Sketches for an Autobiography”, p.114, Open Road Media

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• Historical investigation and literary criticism have taken the magic out of the Bible and have made it a composite human book, written by many hands in different ages.

  Bill Vaughan

  Bible, Book, Taken

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• Strange as it may seem, the most ludicrous lines I ever wrote have been written in the saddest mood.

  William Cowper

  Lines, May, Strange

  William Cowper, Robert Southey, William Harvey (1836). “The Works of William Cowper: Life and works of Cowper, by R. Southey”, p.39

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• I am a political recidivist. An incorrigible, repeat voter. A career lever-pusher. My electoral rap sheet is as long as your arm. Over the course of three decades, I have voted for presidents and school board members. I have voted in high hopes and high dudgeon. I have voted in favor of candidates and merely against their opponents. I have voted for propositions written with such complexity that I needed Noam Chomsky to deconstruct their meaning. I have been a single-issue voter and a marginal voter. I have even voted for people who ran unopposed. Hold an election and I'll be there.

  Ellen Goodman

  Rap, School, Careers

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• God will forgive me the foolish remarks I have made about Him just as I will forgive my opponents the foolish things they have written about me, even though they are spiritually as inferior to me as I to thee, O God!

  Heinrich Heine

  Forgiveness, Forgive Me, Forgiving

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• I have never seen an adequate description anywhere of the amazement, the uncomprehending horror of the bulk of the American people which preceded the firing of that gun at Sumter. Politicians or far-sighted leaders on both sides knew what was coming. And it is they who have written histories of the war. But to the easy-going millions, busied with their farms or shops, the onrushing disaster was as inexplicable as an earthquake. Their protest arose from sea to sea like the clamor of a gigantic hive of frightened bees.

  Rebecca Harding Davis

  War, Gun, Sea

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