Written Quotes
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If someone picks up one thing you've written, you want them to go, 'Wow, this is pretty good.'
Jim Gaffigan
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Mathematics is written for mathematicians.
Nicolaus Copernicus
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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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I bought it [sha la la la lee] because of steve marriotts voice. I didnt realise until recently it was written by kenny lynch. I'm not at all embarrassed, great song and great band.
Carl Frederick Kendall Palmer
Asia
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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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I only know that it was, and ceased to be; and that I have written, and there I leave it.
Charles Dickens
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Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
Herbert Spencer
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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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On the page was exactly what I had written, but it was clearer, more immediate. The erasures, the transpositions, the small additions, and, in some way, her handwriting itself gave me the impression that I had escaped from myself and now was running a hundred paces ahead with an energy and also a harmony that the person left behind didn't know she had.
Elena Ferrante
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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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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.
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Bands have always written songs against what they see as wrong. Ronald Reagan really made for a lot of songs.
Henry Rollins
Black Flag
