Ellen Wittlinger Quotes
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I am more of a suspense writer. A mystery writer solves mysteries. I am a 'high suspense' writer.
Iris Johansen
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I started writing about New York as soon as I arrived. I was 19. I used to write short stories and send them out.
Candace Bushnell
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Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.
Joanne Rowling
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The one standard in art is oneness and fineness, rightness and purity, abstractness and evanescence. The one thing to say about art is, its breathlessness, lifelessness, deathlessness, contentlessness, formlessness, spacelessness, and timelessness. This is always the end of art.
Ad Reinhardt
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Advertisers are the interpreters of our dreams - Joseph interpreting for Pharaoh. Like the movies, they infect the routine futility of our days with purposeful adventure. Their weapons are our weaknesses: fear, ambition, illness, pride, selfishness, desire, ignorance. And these weapons must be kept as bright as a sword.
E. B. White
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There are men whose sense of humour is so ill developed that they still bear a grudge against Copernicus because he dethroned them from the central position in the universe. They feel it a personal affront that they can no longer consider themselves the pivot upon which turns the whole of created things.
W. Somerset Maugham
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I like to think of criticism as the highest intellectual effort that mankind is capable of, and above all, I like to think of self-criticism as the most difficult attainment of an educated man.
Lin Yutang
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Honestly, I am hoping to influence young people, and Twitter's a great way to encourage them to lend their voice to the conversation. Any time you can show young people that you support gay friends and that there are gay people in the world who are lovely, happy, singing, and in love, it opens their minds.
Elizabeth Banks
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Commercials used to have such a serious tone to them or a really corny tone.
Paula Pell
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How can you be content to be in the world like tulips in a garden, to make a fine show, and be good for nothing.
Mary Astell
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It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
Douglas Adams
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Laughter means sympathy.
Thomas Carlyle
