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Caress your phrase tenderly: it will end by smiling at you. - Anat

Caress your phrase tenderly: it will end by smiling at you. – Anatole France

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We reproach people for talking about themselves but it is the subject they treat best. – Anatole France

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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another. – Anatole France

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The majority of writers ought to translate themselves; there are but few thoughts that are born translated, that is, clothed with the power best fitted alike to express and transmit them. What we have in the first instance written for ourselves, should be written a second time for others. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847), Literature. First Section: Literature in Gene

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Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake. – E.L. Doctorow

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

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Easy reading is damn hard writing. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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