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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

Other quotes by Samuel Butler

A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing. – Samuel Butler

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Humor
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Samuel Butler
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When the water of a place is bad it is safest to drink none that has not been filtered through either the berry of a grape, or else a tub of malt. These are the most reliable filters yet invented. – Samuel Butler

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Water
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Other Quotes from
Writing
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An author plants the alphabet — and harvests flowers, nourishment, and weeds. – Terri Guillemets

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Writing

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good. – Author unknown, commonly misattributed to Samuel Johnson (www.samueljohnson.com/

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Writing

No man should ever publish a book until he has first read it to a woman. – Van Wyck Brooks

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Writing

Whatever an author puts between the two covers of his book is public property; whatever of himself he does not put there is his private property, as much as if he had never written a word. – Gail Hamilton

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Writing

Random Quotes

You will go most safely in the middle. – Ovid

Category:
Moderation

I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in. – Salman Rushdie

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God

In the town of The Pas, Manitoba
It snows on the first of Octoba
From then, for six months,
It thaws only once
And never when I am quite soba. – Anon.

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Snow

Ive always written. When I was in school, the only teacher who ever liked me was my creative writing teacher. I used to enter poetry competitions, and I dont think I ever lost one. So I had the idea for a while of being some kind of poet. – Justin Townes Earle

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Poetry