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Quote by Samuel Johnson
The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things f

The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar and familiar things new. – Samuel Johnson

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Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain. – Samuel Johnson

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Hope
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Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test. – Samuel Johnson

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Truth
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You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you. – Ray Bradbury

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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 is possible to regard Norman Mailer as one of the prices we pay for widespread literacy. – Richard Gilman, “Why Mailer Wants to be President,” in The New Republic, 1964 Fe

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So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets having marred it. – Harold Acton, Memoirs of an Aesthete, 1948

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It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard. – Dorothy Parker

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If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it. – Ray Bradbury

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As far away as you can get from the process of mechanisms and machinery, the more likely your foods going to taste good. And that – that is probably the largest thing I can hand to anybody is let your hands touch it. Let them make it. – Mario Batali

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A friend is the only person you will let into the house when you are Turning Out Drawers. – Pam Brown

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