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A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populac

A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. – Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand. – George Orwell, “Why I Write,” 1947 (Thanks, Jennifer)

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An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff. – Adlai Stevenson, quoted in Ronald D. Fuchs, You Said a Mouthful

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You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write. – Saul Bellow

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I confess I seldom commune with my conscience when I write. – Anton Chekhov

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In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door. – Alexandre Dumas

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So, Im always around video games but Ive always been interested in them from a visual perspective, with the graphic design and that whole thing. I dont know if that comes from my love of photography or what but thats always whats held my interest about them. – Sophia Bush

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I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve. – Isoroku Yamamoto

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