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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

Other quotes by Samuel Johnson

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible. – Samuel Johnson

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Art
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Samuel Johnson
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While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it. – Samuel Johnson

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Broken Hearts
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The road to hell is paved with adverbs. – Stephen King

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Writing

Sleep on your writing; take a walk over it; scrutinize it of a morning; review it of an afternoon; digest it after a meal; let it sleep in your drawer a twelvemonth; never venture a whisper about it to your friend, if he be an author especially. – A. Bronson Alcott

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Writing

One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper pattern at the right moment. – Hart Crane

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Writing

Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind. – Catherine Drinker Bowen, Atlantic, December 1957

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All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination. – Wislawa Szymborska

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In the summer I wear shorts with a bright top and ankle boots or just sandals. Ill add a nice scarf, maybe a hat, some cool sunglasses. Its all about the accessories. – Alessandra Ambrosio

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