Written Quotes
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If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoyevsky, all of us.
William Faulkner
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In this Revolution no plans have been written for retreat.
Martin Luther
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By the time we made "Abbey Road", John and I were openly critical of each other's music, and I felt John wasn't much interested in performing anything he hadn't written himself.
Paul McCartney
Paul McCartney and Wings
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The written word Should be clean as bone, Clear as light, Firm as stone. Two words are not As good as one.
Cornelius Plantinga
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The written word may be man's greatest invention. It allows us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn.
Abraham Lincoln
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As I kid, I was always jealous of the music that my favorite bands had written - but not really of how they played. So I'd daydream about having written songs, and this way above being able to perform them.
Jonny Greenwood
Radiohead
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Counting the ones I've co-edited, I guess about 28 or 29 books I've written.
Nat Hentoff
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This paper of yours is so lightly written that you must have sweated terribly.
Albert Szent-Györgyi
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Every story, every poem, every written piece is about belonging. There is a me, there is a we, there is an us, and we want to belong to it or we don't want to belong. You can read every story with this as its main focus.
Alejandro Zambra
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A woman's heart is just like a lithographer's stone; what is once written upon it cannot be rubbed out.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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If you want to know whether you have written anything worth preserving, sing it to yourself without any accompaniment.
Joseph Haydn
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Never before have I written so long a letter. I'm afraid it is much too long to take your precious time. I can assure you that it would have been much shorter if I had been writing from a comfortable desk, but what else can one do when he is alone in a narrow jail cell, other than write long letters, think long thoughts, and pray long prayers?
Martin Luther King, Jr.
