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No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published. – Russell Lynes

Other quotes by Russell Lynes

Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely revealed by what we want to seem to be as by what we want to conceal. – Russell Lynes

Category:
Self-Discovery
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Russell Lynes
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The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name of architecture in our history. – Russell Lynes

Category:
architecture
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Russell Lynes
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Other Quotes from
Writing
category

I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of William Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon. – Bill Hoest (1926–1988)

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Writing

An incurable itch for scribbling takes possession of many, and grows inveterate in their insane breasts. – Juvenal, Satires

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Writing

I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all. – Richard Wright, American Hunger, 1977

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Writing

For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain [and] the noise of battle. – John Cheever

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Writing

Random Quotes

Fate laughs at probabilities. – Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton

Category:
Fate

The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth. – Malcolm Bradbury

Category:
Manners

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didnt they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines… There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters. – Bill Gates

Category:
Change

No taste is so acquired as that for someone elses quality of mind. – Cyril Connolly

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Style