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Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought fo

Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable. – Francis Bacon

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Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory. – Francis Bacon

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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. – Francis Bacon

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A good style should show no signs of effort. What is written should seem a happy accident. – W. Somerset Maugham, Summing Up, 1938

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I start with the idea of constructing a treehouse and end with a skyscraper made of wood. – Norman Mailer

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Sleep on your writing; take a walk over it; scrutinize it of a morning; review it of an afternoon; digest it after a meal; let it sleep in your drawer a twelvemonth; never venture a whisper about it to your friend, if he be an author especially. – A. Bronson Alcott

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The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink. – T.S. Eliot

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I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell. – William Tecumseh Sherman

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Ive probably earned the right to screw up a few times. I dont want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about. – Emma Watson

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The more you eat, the less flavor; the less you eat, the more flavor. – Chinese proverb

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Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics — a rational ethics — as a precondition of rebirth. – Ayn Rand

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