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Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a

Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason. They made no such demand upon those who wrote them. – Charles Caleb Colton

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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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The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies. – Ray Bradbury

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An author plants the alphabet — and harvests flowers, nourishment, and weeds. – Terri Guillemets

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Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out. – Samuel Johnson, “Recalling the Advice of a College Tutor,” Boswell, Life of John

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That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel? – Joseph Addison

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I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience – it also marks the time, which is four o clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere. – Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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Now, one of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of ones house. – James Otis

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Whence it follows that God is absolutely perfect, since perfection is nothing but magnitude of positive reality, in the strict sense, setting aside the limits or bounds in things which are limited. – Gottfried Leibniz

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