"Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent."

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"Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent."

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"Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason."

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"The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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"At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid."

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"Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"The cause is hidden; the effect is visible to all."

Ovid, Roman Poet

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"Magnetism, as you recall from physics class, is a powerful force that causes certain items to be attracted to refrigerators."

Dave Barry, American Journalist

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"So inscrutable is the arrangement of causes and consequences in this world, that a two-penny duty on tea, unjustly imposed in a sequestered part of it, changes the condition of all its inhabitants."

Thomas Jefferson, American President

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"In a just cause the weak will beat the strong."

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"For these cultures, getting rid of the pain without addressing the deeper cause would be like shutting off a fire alarm while the fire's still going."

David Foster Wallace, American Writer

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"Nothing ever happens to me, " she reflected..... An older person at such an hour and in such a place might think that sufficient was happening to him, and rest content. Lucy desired more."

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"He had known so much about her once -what she thought, how she felt, the reasons for her actions. And now he only knew that he loved her, and all the other knowledge seemed passing from him just as he needed it most."

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"America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large."

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"So never give in, continued the girl, and restated again and again the vague yet convincing plea that the Invisible lodges against the Visible. Her excitement grew as she tried to cut the rope that fastened Leonard to the earth. Woven of bitter experience, it resisted her. Presently the waitress entered and gave her a letter from Margaret. Another note, addressed to Leonard, was inside. They read them, listening to the murmurings of the river."

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"Unless we remember we cannot understand."

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"But they did not chatter much, for the boy, when he liked a person, would as soon sit silent in his company as speak."

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"Standing each by his monster, they looked at each other, and smiled."

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"He had a theory that musicians are incredibly complex, and know far less than other artists what they want and what they are; that they puzzle themselves as well as their friends; that their psychology is a modern development, and has not yet been understood."

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"We may say that History develops, Art stands still."

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"Naked I came into the world, naked I shall go out of it! And a very good thing too, for it reminds me that I am naked under my shirt, whatever its colour."

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