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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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Our passions shape our books; repose writes them in the intervals. – Proust, The Past Recaptured, 1927

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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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Writing is a struggle against silence. – Carlos Fuentes

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Publication – is the auction of the Mind of Man. – Emily Dickinson

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I am monarch of all I survey,
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The summer night is like a perfection of thought. – Wallace Stevens

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When I started my last business, I didnt receive a paycheck for 13 months. The average person cant handle that pressure. – Robert Kiyosaki

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