"You never realize what a good memory you have until you try to forget something."

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"Nothing makes you more tolerant of a neighbor's noisy party than being there."

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"You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance."

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"Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper bringing-up, a sound set of values - and witnesses."

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"You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a figure of speech."

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"The British have a remarkable talent for keeping calm, even when there is no crisis."

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"It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon; which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to."

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"One advantage of talking to yourself is that you know at least somebody's listening."

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"You never realize what a good memory you have until you try to forget something."

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"One trouble with developing speed reading skills is that by the time you realize a book is boring you've already finished it."

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"What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don't want to discourage it completely."

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"It just happens to be the way that I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

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"Now, practically even better news than that of short assignments is the idea of shitty first drafts. All good writers write them."

Anne Lamott, American Author

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"Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream."

Mark Twain, American Author

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"Every article and review and book that I have ever published has constituted an appeal to the person or persons to whom I should have talked before I dared to write it. I never launch any little essay without the hope-and the fear, because the encounter may also be embarrassing-that I shall draw a letter that begins, 'Dear Mr. Hitchens, it seems that you are unaware that It is in this sense that authorship is collaborative with 'the reader.' And there's no help for it: you only find out what you ought to have known by pretending to know at least some of it already.It doesn't matter how obscure or arcane or esoteric your place of publication may be: some sweet law ensures that the person who should be scrutinizing your work eventually does do so."

Christopher Hitchens, American Author

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"The name of a great writer is usually bigger than the title of his book. Both literally and figuratively."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"Writing is my pleasure and the play,where I find myself again and again."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"It is said that you can't write without a reader. The opposite holds true as well; you can't read without a writer. But if as a single, creative person you are one in the same, then, well.....problem solved! Great writing is born from that which we personally long to read."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"Edinburgh is a comfortable puddle for a novelist."

Sara Sheridan, Scottish Author

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"One author said "I write because I want to live a footprint in the sands of history. It's hard to live a footprint in the sands of history when giants are passing through the same sands unless you are one of the giants."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

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"By applying their observational abilities along with full appliance of their logic and creative powers, writers attempt to create mental maps to share with other people regarding what they learned, think, and believe. The writer's vision can sway readers emotional state and in doing influence what they believe and how they behave."

Kilroy J. Oldster, American Author

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