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Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insi

Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such. – Samuel Butler

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Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderated use rather than total abstinence. – Samuel Butler

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Virtue
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Samuel Butler
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The thief. Once committed beyond a certain point he should not worry himself too much about not being a thief any more. Thieving is Gods message to him. Let him try and be a good thief. – Samuel Butler

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Crime
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Samuel Butler
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A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer. – Karl Kraus

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Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought? – Joan Didion

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The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say. – Anaïs Nin

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It seems to me that the problem with diaries, and the reason that most of them are so boring, is that every day we vacillate between examining our hangnails and speculating on cosmic order. – Ann Beattie, Picturing Will, 1989

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