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160 quotesFishing seems to be the favorite form of loafing.
Fishing
Edgar Watson Howe
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Oh, write of me, not Died in bitter pains, but Emigrated to another star!
Epitaphs
Helen Hunt Jackson
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My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.
Politicians and Politics
Jesse Jackson
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
Writers and Writing
Henry James
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There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.
Science and Scientists
P. D. James
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No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.
Pleasure
Samuel Johnson
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Anyone who profits from the experience of others probably writes biographies.
Biography
Jones
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It is difficult not to write satire.
Sarcasm
(Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal
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I write plays for people who wouldn't be seen dead in the theatre.
Theater
Barrie Keeffe
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It's easier to find a new audience than to write a new speech.
Audiences
Dan Kennedy
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What God writes on your forehead you will become.
Destiny
The Koran
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A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.
Writers and Writing
Karl Kraus
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An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
Merit
Walter Savage Landor
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I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
Writers and Writing
D. H. Lawrence
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The cure for writers cramp is writer's block.
Writers and Writing
Inigo de Leon
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We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.
Writers and Writing
Cecil Day Lewis
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Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.
Writers and Writing
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.
Ambiguity
Abraham Lincoln
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The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.
Truth
Albert Low
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Never write a letter if you can help it, and never destroy one!
Letters
Sir John A. Macdonald
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I never think when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them well.
Writers and Writing
Don Marquis
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Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does.
Writers and Writing
Groucho Marx
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It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.
Writers and Writing
W. Somerset Maugham
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The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.
Writers and Writing
W. Somerset Maugham
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The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.
Writers and Writing
W. Somerset Maugham
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun