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When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will

When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence. – Samuel Butler

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God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor. – Samuel Butler

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A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure. – Henry David Thoreau

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Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself. – Franz Kafka

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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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