Written Quotes
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In general, what is written must be easy to read and easy to speak; which is the same.
Aristotle
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I believe that books, once they are written, have no need of their authors.
Elena Ferrante
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Beautiful books are always written in a sort of foreign language.
Marcel Proust
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The greatest history book ever written is the one hidden in our DNA.
Spencer Wells
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'Deadwood' was just a wonderful opportunity for me. Outside of my own things that I've written, I hadn't had the opportunity to play a character with that amount of depth and range.
Ray McKinnon
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Before things are written down they don't exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.
Erica Jong
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It is quite possible that we can do greater things than Jesus, for what is written in the Bible about him is poetically embellished.
Albert Einstein
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People who are offended by the Ten Commandments have a deeper problem than the stone that it's written on, I think.
Judy Martz
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The day you were born, it was already written down the day you're gonna check out. Now, I'm not gonna throw myself under a truck, but I'm not gonna worry about when I die. I'm ready to move on when that day comes.
Carroll Shelby
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Want to know the biggest lie ever written? 'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
Bart Yates
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He is the greatest influence in the world today. There is... a fifth Gospel being written - the work of Jesus Christ in the hearts and lives of men and nations.
William Griffith Thomas
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I really feel like I've written my most effective music in the instrumental realms.
Dickey Betts
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The Weird Sisters is a chronicle of real women, because it tells the truths of sisters. Eleanor Brown has written a compelling novel about love, despair and birth order—the themes the Bard himself had claimed and burnished.
Min Jin Lee
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I think it must somewhere be written that the virtues of mothers shall be visited on their children, as well as the sins of their fathers.
Charles Dickens
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Her life was like a burst of wild, flowing Chinese calligraphy, written under the influence of alcohol.
Weihui Zhou
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The life these words speak of is not worth the ink they are written in.... He now knows that the only words worth writing down arise when language is impossible.
Andreï Makine
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Probably 95 percent of the things that are written never get on the screen.
Joseph Wambaugh
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I love deliberately badly written books.
Richard Prince
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It's just a matter of me opening up the page and whatever is written on the page, that's what I'm here to do.
Anthony Anderson
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I wanted to hear the songs in the way that I had written them, which was very basic. All I wanted was drums and another guitar, and I was just going to sing.
Thurston Moore Sonic Youth
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Definitely, I want to continue doing films and television, but my heart is in music. I've written for most of my life.
Michael J. Willett
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Bob Dylan was really mad with my wife. I had asked by Rolling Stone - the only assignment I ever had for them - to do a story on the Rolling Thunder Review, which was Bob Dylan, Alan Ginsberg, Joan Baez and a host of stars. My wife, some weeks before, had written in The New York Times that The Kid wasn't The Kid anymore and he wasn't all that winning anymore.
Nat Hentoff
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The sun was like a word written between the sea and the sky, a word that was swallowed up by the sea before any man had time to read it.
Stella Benson
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Its focus wasn't on the written word but how the word was written.
Neville Brody