Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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I have attempted to write the following account of myself, as if I were a dead man in another world looking back at my own life. Nor have I found this difficult, for life is nearly over with me. I have taken no pains about my style of writing.
Charles Darwin
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As for most writers, language is vital for me: a writer's ability to render a fictional world - characters, landscape, emotions - into something original that alters or deepens my understanding of both literature and life.
Dinaw Mengestu
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My dream was to have a garage where I could put some of the coolest cars I've ever seen throughout my life.
Bill Goldberg
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Somehow we got used to death, and then we dehumanised it. We account for conflicts in figures. Ebola is 13,500 infected, 5,000 people have died... People are losing their sense of empathy, their sense of wanting to do something.
Joanne Liu
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Wallow too much in sensitivity and you can't deal with life, or the truth.
Neal Boortz
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It wasn't like I was specifically wanting to write songs about technology. It's just what I lived, what I was experiencing growing up.
Khalid
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In recent years I had begun to be interested in fashion, to educate my taste under Adele's guidance, and now I enjoyed dressing up. But sometimes - especially when I had dressed not only to make a good impression in general, but for a man - preparing myself (this was the word) seemed to me to have something ridiculous about it. All that struggle, all that time spent camouflaging myself when I could be doing something else. The colors that suited me, the ones that didn't, the styles that made me look thinner, those that made me fatter, the cut that flattered me, the one that didn't. A lengthy, costly preparation. Reducing myself to a table set for the sexual appetite of the male, to a well-cooked dish to make his mouth water.
Elena Ferrante
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I question every word; I write 'the' and immediately feel scorn. It's such an ordinary word - everybody uses it - why can't I come up with something original? In the sunlight, every single word seems hackneyed.
Jeff Lindsay
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When using colors to recreate a general harmony of tones in nature, one loses it by painfully exact imitation. One keeps it by recreating in an equivalent color range, and that may not be exactly, or far from exactly, like the model.
Vincent Van Gogh
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Be conscious of one another and everything that we are connected to in this world of ours (not just your relatives and friends).
Noelle Scaggs
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I wrote a song called "Green Day" because I was smoking a lot of dope.
Billie Joe Armstrong
Green Day
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It doesn't behoove elderly persons to follow fashion in their thinking nor in the way they dress.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe