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• Most books that come out with a comedy label seem to be, Eric [Wareheim] and I could have written, "This is our story, and this is who we are," and sort of this navel-gazing, narcissistic approach to comedy we're seeing these days.

  Tim Heidecker

  Book, Eric, Gazing

  "Tim and Eric Are Bringing Down Scientology With Jokes". Interview with Jill Krasny, www.esquire.com. July 8, 2015.

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• Life is a slate where all our sins are written; from time to time we rub the sponge of repentance over it so we can begin sinning again.

  George Sand

  Life Is, Sin, Repentance

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• my crime books are actually novels and are written as such. One might even say that each one is really two novels, one of which is the story I tell the reader, and the other the buried story I know and let slip now and then into a clue to whet the reader's interest.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Book, Two, Stories

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (1957). “The Mary Roberts Rinehart crime book”

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• Elizabeth Hardwick told me once that all her first drafts sounded as if a chicken had written them. So do mine for the most part.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Firsts, Chickens, Mines

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• In that part of the book of my memory before the which is little that can be read, there is a rubric, saying, Incipit Vita Nova. Under such rubric I find written many things; and among them the words which I purpose to copy into this little book; if not all of them, at the least their substance.

  Dante Alighieri

  Memories, Book, Purpose

  Dante Alighieri (2015). “La Vita Nuova: The New Life”, p.12, The Floating Press

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• I suppose anyone who has ever written a travel book has had the experience of being accosted by a reader with blood in his eye and a lawsuit in his voice.

  Ilka Chase

  Book, Eye, Voice

  Ilka Chase (1963). “Elephants Arrive at Half-past Five”, Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday

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• What woman says to fond lover should be written on air or the swift water.
  [Lat., Mulier cupido quod dicit amanti,
  In vento et rapida scribere oportet aqua.]

  Catullus

  Love, Air, Aqua

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• The vows that woman makes to her fond lover are only fit to be written on air or on the swiftly passing stream.

  Catullus

  Air, Lovers, Fit

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• The sun was like a word written between the sea and the sky, a word that was swallowed up by the sea before any man had time to read it.

  Stella Benson

  Men, Sea, Sky

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• I do apologize for writing by hand - and so badly. I shall soon be like Helen Thomas, notoriously illegible. In her last letter only two words stood out plain: 'Blood pressure.' Subsequent research demonstrated that what she had actually written was 'Beloved friends.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Writing, Blood, Hands

  Sylvia Townsend Warner, William Maxwell (1982). “Letters”

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• Happy is the day whose history is not written down.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Sylvia Townsend Warner, Claire Harman (1994). “The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner”, Virago Pr

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• Winston has written four volumes about himself and called it 'World Crisis'.

  Arthur Balfour

  World, Four, Volume

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• A book, while it is being written, has an intense life of its own which you share.

  Margaret Bourke-White

  Book, Intense, Share

  Margaret Bourke-White (2016). “Portrait of Myself”, p.331, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• But a piece of paper can be a powerful presence. I have always had enormous respect for the written word and invariably find a letter more revealing than a face-to-face conversation. In a strange way I suspect I will get to know you better at a distance than I would if you had stayed at home.

  Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

  Powerful, Distance, Home

  Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey (1998). “A Woman of Independent Means”, p.172, Penguin

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• Mutability is written upon all things.

  Antoine Rivarol

  Decay, All Things, Mutability

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• The nations which have received and in any way dealt fairly and mercifully with the Jew have prospered, and the nations that have tortured and oppressed him have written out their own curse.

  Olive Schreiner

  Way, Curse, Jew

  Olive Schreiner (2005). “Words in Season: The Public Writings with Her Own Remembrances Collected for the First Time”, Penguin Global

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• If I am proud of anything, it is that I have been granted the privilege of living in the land which God promised our forefathers to give us, as it is written.

  Shmuel Yosef Agnon

  Land, Giving, Proud

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• The woman's bill of rights is, unhappily, long overdue. It should have run along with the rights of man in the eighteenth century. Its drag as to time of official proclamation is a drag as to social vision. And even if equal rights were now written into the law of our land, it would be so inadequate today as a means to food, clothing and shelter for woman at large that what they would still be enjoying would be equality in disaster rather than in realistic privilege.

  Mary Ritter Beard

  Running, Mean, Men

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• I have decided to keep a full journal, in the hope that my life will perhaps seem more interesting when it is written down.

  Sue Townsend

  Interesting, Diaries, Adolescence

  Sue Townsend (1994). “Adrian Mole, the lost years”, Soho Pr Inc

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• The best commentary on the principles of government which has ever been written.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, Principles, Commentary

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”

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• At last an authentic voice from Saudi Arabia. Al-Mohaimeed has written a remarkable, rhythmic, genuine novel. Wolves of the Crescent Moon throbs with sensuality and moral courage, as if it didn't take place in a society that denies the tick of the heart.

  Hanan al-Shaykh

  Heart, Moon, Voice

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• No one who was not by nature a lover of logic, and an extreme precisian in the use of words and phrases, could have written the two "Alice" books.

  Stuart Dodgson Collingwood

  Book, Two, Phrases

  "The Lewis Carroll Picture Book". Book by Stuart Dodgson Collingwood, 1899.

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• here are the top three global resources getting scarcer in the twenty-first century: ozone layer, rain forest, people eager to read the fiction of others. That's right, folks. For the first time in I believe written history, there are far more fiction writers on earth than fiction readers.

  Sandra Tsing Loh

  Book, Reading, Rain

  Sandra Tsing Loh (2002). “A Year in Van Nuys”, Three Rivers Press

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• I am convinced that the first lyric poem was written at night, and that the moon was witness to the event and that the event was witness to the moon. For me, the moon has always been the very embodiment of lyric poetry.

  Mary Ruefle

  Night, Moon, Lyric Poetry

  Mary Ruefle (2012). “Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures”, p.12, Wave Books

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• I am dissatisfied with everything I have ever written and regard it all only as a preparation for that one work which probably I don't have it in me to write but which I hope I can go on trying for.

  Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

  Writing, Preparation, Trying

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