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Quote by Samuel Butler
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the inst

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. – Samuel Butler

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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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Writing
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The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way. – Samuel Butler

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best
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To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him. – Samuel Butler

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Just as we accumulate memories of facts by integrating them into a network, we accumulate life experiences by integrating them into a web of other chronological memories. The denser the web, the denser the experience of time. – Joshua Foer

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Experience is like a comb that life gives you when you are bald. – Navjot Singh Sidhu

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You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience. – J. K. Rowling

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Stories have always been the things that entertain me and make me feel happy and sad and move me and give me the experience of being able to live many lives in one lifetime. Its the best thing about being alive. – Michael Sheen

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Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time! – Phyllis McGinley

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Envy assails the noblest: the winds howl around the highest peaks. – Ovid

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