Francis Bacon Quotes
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It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer.
Barbara Kingsolver
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If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.
Edmund Burke
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Traditionalists often study what is taught, not what there is to create.
Ed Parker
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A writer's job is to give the reader a larger vision of the world.
Natalie Goldberg
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In cases of porphyria, a minor disease, the patient excretes large quantities of porphyrins.
Hans Fischer
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When I finally finished the 'Two Suns' tour, which went on for quite a long time, I felt like a bit of a husk. And I remember thinking, 'I need to spend some time in one place, and just be at home.' So I guess the first year of that three and a half years was spent just trying to kind of get back to normal again.
Bat for Lashes
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Right from the very beginning, I knew I wanted to write palpably Scottish fiction.
Ian Rankin
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To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
Samuel Butler
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Practicing is not normally fun. Sometimes people say they're practicing, but they're really just enjoying themselves and the instrument. That's not real practice.
Damien Chazelle
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Incontestably, the great centres of population in the primeval ages were the chalklands, and next to them those of limestone. The chalk first, for it furnished man with flints, and the limestone next when he had learned to barter.
Sabine Baring-Gould
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People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We're just trying to make 'The Darkside' its own brand. It's Fat Joe, but it's 'The Darkside.' We come with 'Vol. 2,' make it crazier than 'Vol. 1.' By the time 'Vol. 3' come, we got a problem on our hands.
Fat Joe
