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51 quotesI never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
Conversation
Samuel Johnson
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If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written.
Slander
Samuel Johnson
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What is read twice is usually remembered more than what is once written.
Memory
Samuel Johnson
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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
Books - Reading
Samuel Johnson
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One man is as good as another until he has written a book.
Books - Reading
Benjamin Jowett
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In this Revolution no plans have been written for retreat.
Revolutions and Revolutionaries
King Jr. Martin Luther
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No literature is complete until the language it was written in is dead.
Language
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.
Chaos
Henry Miller
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Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.
Writers and Writing
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
Writers and Writing
Ezra Pound
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The word that is heard perishes, but the letter that is written remains.
Letters
Proverb
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Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word satiety.
Enjoyment
Francis Quarles
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I have written some poetry that I don't understand myself.
Poetry and Poets
Carl Sandburg
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History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.
History and Historians
George Santayana
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I know a lot of athletes and models are written off as just bodies. I never felt used for my body.
Health
Arnold Schwarzenegger
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Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.
Humor
Stephen Sondheim
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The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.
Writers and Writing
John Steinbeck
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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
Speech
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
Books - Reading
Henry David Thoreau
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Goals that are not written down are just wishes.
Goals
Source Unknown
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The written word can be erased -- not so with the spoken word.
Words
Source Unknown
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Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.
Speech
Alfred North Whitehead
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A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.
Music
Colin Wilson
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A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
Philosophers and Philosophy
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.
Life and Living
Steven Wright
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun