Words Quotes
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Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
Christian Nestell Bovee
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Over the years, a number of people have asked me why I tend to write at this great length. I've put some thought into the answer, and it can be boiled down one word: consequences. Well, maybe two words: consequences and characters. Or perhaps, consequences, characters, and the subconscious mind - above all the subconscious mind.
Katharine Kerr
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I write line by line, by the sound and the weight and the music of the words.
Jayne Anne Phillips
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Can words such as Orthodox, Jew, or Catholic really express some sort of exclusive personal virtues or merits?
Anton Chekhov
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Too many trees are killed to print the words of people who may not have all that much to say, and authors and journalists are equally culpable in this regard.
Vikram Seth
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Instead of explaining the sober facts of mechanics and electricity, I want to say a few words about the debt which we owe to youth; and with your permission I shall consider you as representing here not only the academic youth of Sweden nor even of Europe but also of America.
Felix Bloch
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In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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Writing is not like acting, where you can pull these little stunts that create a particular effect. Words are all it is about, and the way you use words has to be individual and particular to you.
Damon Galgut
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I see you lying next to me, with words I thought i'd never speak, awake and unafraid, asleep or dead?
Gerard Way
My Chemical Romance
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Although I always loved reading and putting words on paper, I never thought about becoming a writer until I was twelve.
Kimberly Willis Holt
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I don't like to use the words 'real women,' honestly. I like to use the word 'woman.' And I say that because there are so many women out there who are naturally thin or are naturally curvy, and I think when we start putting a label on the type of woman, it gets misconstrued and starts to offend people.
Ashley Graham
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And it also became clear that these conditions of inequality and historical injustice have given rise to a feeling of hate in the world - a deeply felt hate that cannot easily be overcome with a few good words.
Ulrich Beck
