Quote by Samuel Johnson
Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, from which only

Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, from which only absence can set them free. – Samuel Johnson

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There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either. – Samuel Johnson

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Dont think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark. – Samuel Johnson

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I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions. – James Michener

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Be obscure clearly. – E.B. White

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When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation. – Jorge Luis Borges

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The expression “to write something down” suggests a descent of thought to the fingers whose movements immediately falsify it. – William Gass, “Habitations of the Word,” Kenyon Review, October 1984

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And so this is Xmas for black and for white, for yellow and red, lets stop all the fight. – John Lennon

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On Thanksgiving Day, all over America, families sit down to dinner at the same moment — halftime. – Author Unknown

Good artists copy, great artists steal. – Pablo Picasso

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