"Marriage: A word which should be pronounced "mirage"."

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"Twofold misjudgement. - The misfortune suffered by clear-minded and easily understood writers is that they are taken for shallow and thus little effort is expended on reading them: and the good fortune that attends the obscure is that the reader toils at them and ascribes to them the pleasure he has in fact gained from his own zeal."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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Charles Bukowski, American Author

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"Copywriters, journalists, mainstream authors, ghostwriters, bloggers and advertising creatives have as much right to think of themselves as good writers as academics, poets, or literary novelists."

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"I'd be somewhat of a lousy writer if I didn't know what to say."

S. A. Tawks, British Author

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"Anyone who claims to be good at lying is obviously bad at lying. Thus - as a writer myself - I cannot comment on whether or not writers are exceptionally good liars, because whatever I said would actually mean its complete opposite."

Chuck Klosterman, American Critic

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"A true piece of writing sets you free."

A. D. Posey, American Poet

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"A writer travels through the heart again and again to express the beauty of its contents."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"A writer's duty is to draw a picture that expresses more inner beauty, deeper anxiety, and more complex tragedy than a real character ever can."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"The Book is more important than your plans for it. You have to go with what works for The Book ~ if your ideas appear hollow or forced when they are put on paper, chop them, erase them, pulverise them and start again. Don't whine when things are not going your way, because they are going the right way for The Book, which is more important. The show must go on, and so must The Book."

E.A. Bucchianeri, American Author

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"You are the writer of your life story, so don't forget to write the best one."

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"The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship."

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"We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one."

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"A jury is a group of twelve people of average ignorance."

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"Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect."

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"People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal."

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"The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality."

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"Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit."

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"What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man."

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