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"Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders."
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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."

"A true piece of writing sets you free."

"Through writing, an author opens the window of his heart through which a reader can see the inner self of the author."

"Writing means not just staring ugliness in the face, but finding a way to embrace it."

"What is your advice to young writers? "Drink, fuck and smoke plenty of cigarettes."
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"An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft."


"So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is unwise and their conscience that it is wrong."


"The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards."


"The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it."


"The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything."


"It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations."


"A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life."
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