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"I also identify as a Latin person, a person who has Latin blood."

"I also identify as a Latin person, a person who has Latin blood."

Jessica Hagedorn, Filipino Writer

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"It always takes longer than you expect, even if you take Hofstadter's Law into account."

"It always takes longer than you expect, even if you take Hofstadter's Law into account."

Douglas Hofstadter, American Writer

23

"The Bible must be considered as the great source of all the truth by which men are to be guided in government as well as in all social transactions."

"The Bible must be considered as the great source of all the truth by which men are to be guided in government as well as in all social transactions."

Noah Webster, American Writer

Government, Men, Truth, Bible

23

"The shortest distance between two people is a story."

"The shortest distance between two people is a story."

Patti Digh, American Writer

Relationship, Connection, Story, Empathy, Communication

23

"When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him."

"When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him."

Jonathan Swift, Irish Writer

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"Africa is a cruel country; it takes your heart and grinds it into powdered stone - and no one minds."

"Africa is a cruel country; it takes your heart and grinds it into powdered stone - and no one minds."

Elspeth Huxley, Kenyan Writer

23

"The fundamentalists are increasing. People, afraid to oppose those fundamentalists, shut their mouths. It is really very difficult to make people move against a sensitive issue like religion, which is the source of fundamentalism."

"The fundamentalists are increasing. People, afraid to oppose those fundamentalists, shut their mouths. It is really very difficult to make people move against a sensitive issue like religion, which is the source of fundamentalism."

Taslima Nasrin, Bangladeshi Writer

Religion, People

22

"I'm in fact a hair under six feet, but I'm very svelte. People would never see me if I turned sideways."

"I'm in fact a hair under six feet, but I'm very svelte. People would never see me if I turned sideways."

Mo Rocca, American Writer

People, Fact, Feet, Hair

22

"The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint. The neurotic, the saint are engaged in the same battle. Their blood flows from similar wounds. But the first one gasps and the other one gives."

"The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint. The neurotic, the saint are engaged in the same battle. Their blood flows from similar wounds. But the first one gasps and the other one gives."

Georges Bataille, French Writer

Battle, Blood, First, Wounds

22

"To be willing to sort of die in order to move the reader, somehow. Even now I'm scared about how sappy this'll look in print, saying this."

"To be willing to sort of die in order to move the reader, somehow. Even now I'm scared about how sappy this'll look in print, saying this."

David Foster Wallace, American Writer

Now, Order, Saying

22

"But my deepest and most secret love belongs to the fair-haired and the blue-eyed, the bright children of life, the happy, the charming and the ordinary."

"But my deepest and most secret love belongs to the fair-haired and the blue-eyed, the bright children of life, the happy, the charming and the ordinary."

Thomas Mann, German Writer

Love, Life, Children

22

"Last year I think I made more from my Image books than anywhere else."

"Last year I think I made more from my Image books than anywhere else."

Robert Kirkman, American Writer

22

"These days I can really get the strings to snap if I want."

"These days I can really get the strings to snap if I want."

Steve Hackett, English Writer

22

"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."

"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."

Douglas Adams, English Writer

22

"Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia."

"Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia."

Barbara Ehrenreich, American Writer

22

"Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather."

"Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather."

John Ruskin, English Writer

Nature, Rain, Snow, Weather, Wind

22

"You say that you hope I will be recognized as the best novelist of my generation. I want you to know now and know completely that that would mean to me absolutely nothing."

"You say that you hope I will be recognized as the best novelist of my generation. I want you to know now and know completely that that would mean to me absolutely nothing."

Jean Stafford, American Writer

Hope, Nothing, Now, Want

22

"Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great."

"Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great."

Niccolo Machiavelli, Italian Writer

Determination, Difficulties

22

"Time moves in one direction, memory in another."

"Time moves in one direction, memory in another."

William Gibson, American Writer

Time, Direction, Memory

22

"An intellectual is someone who has found something more interesting than sex."

"An intellectual is someone who has found something more interesting than sex."

Edgar Wallace, British Writer

22

"Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future."

"Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future."

Oliver Wendell Holmes, American Writer

Beauty, Wisdom, Future, Past

22

"Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself."

"Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself."

Niccolo Machiavelli, Italian Writer

Strategy, Error, May

21

"The best actors do not let the wheels show."

"The best actors do not let the wheels show."

Milan Kundera, Czechoslovakian Writer

21

"Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it."

"Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it."

Richard Whately, English Writer

Time, Day, Will

21

"From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away."

"From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away."

Raymond Chandler, American Writer

Appearance, Class, Feet

21

"The most important sign in Matthew has to be the restoration of the Jews to the land in the rebirth of Israel."

"The most important sign in Matthew has to be the restoration of the Jews to the land in the rebirth of Israel."

Hal Lindsey, American Writer

Politics, Israel, Land, Rebirth

21

"If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it."

"If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it."

William Arthur Ward, American Writer

21

"Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers."

"Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers."

Alain de Botton, English Writer

Philosophy, Writers

21

"Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up."

"Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up."

Oliver Wendell Holmes, American Writer

Creativity, Ideas, Mind

21

"The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you."

"The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you."

Rita Mae Brown, American Writer

Friendship, Americans, Friends, Illness, Sanity

21

"But from each crime are born bullets that will one day seek out in you where the heart lies."

"But from each crime are born bullets that will one day seek out in you where the heart lies."

Pablo Neruda, Chilean Writer

Heart, Crime, Day, Lies

21

"I think there's a great difference in consciousness in that same way in that when we're young we read books for the story, for the excitement of the story - and there comes a time when you realise that all stories are more or less the same story."

"I think there's a great difference in consciousness in that same way in that when we're young we read books for the story, for the excitement of the story - and there comes a time when you realise that all stories are more or less the same story."

John McGahern, Irish Writer

Time, Books, Consciousness, Difference

21

"Erotica is using a feather, pornography is using the whole chicken."

"Erotica is using a feather, pornography is using the whole chicken."

Isabel Allende, Chilean Writer

Erotica, Pornography

21

"To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe."

"To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe."

Marilyn vos Savant, American Writer

Wisdom, Knowledge, Study

20

"Koranic teaching still insists that the sun moves around the earth. How can we advance when they teach things like that?"

"Koranic teaching still insists that the sun moves around the earth. How can we advance when they teach things like that?"

Taslima Nasrin, Bangladeshi Writer

Earth, Sun, Teaching

20

"The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain."

"The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain."

Peggy Noonan, American Writer

War, Battle, Mind, World

20

"Don't play for safety - it's the most dangerous thing in the world."

"Don't play for safety - it's the most dangerous thing in the world."

Hugh Walpole, New Zealander Writer

Courage, Play, Safety, World, Newzealander

20

"Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings."

"Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings."

Jane Austen, British Writer

20

"Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside."

"Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside."

William S. Burroughs, American Writer

20

"It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it."

"It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it."

Joseph Joubert, French Writer

Debate, Question

20

"Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear."

"Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear."

Alan Coren, British Writer

Democracy, Dictators, Want

20

"Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job."

"Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job."

Douglas Adams, English Writer

20

"General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be."

"General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be."

Jane Austen, British Writer

Friendship, Benevolence, Man

20

"I'll dispose of my teeth as I see fit, and after they've gone, I'll get along. I started off living on gruel, and by God, I can always go back to it again."

"I'll dispose of my teeth as I see fit, and after they've gone, I'll get along. I started off living on gruel, and by God, I can always go back to it again."

S. J. Perelman, American Writer

20

"The house burned an hour before midnight on the last day of April. The wild, distant ringing of the fire bells woke George Hazard. He stumbled through the dark hallway, then upstairs to the mansion tower, and stepped outside into the narrow balcony."

"The house burned an hour before midnight on the last day of April. The wild, distant ringing of the fire bells woke George Hazard. He stumbled through the dark hallway, then upstairs to the mansion tower, and stepped outside into the narrow balcony."

John Jakes, American Writer

Literature, April, Bells, Day, Fire

20

"I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests."

"I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests."

Pablo Neruda, Chilean Writer

Poetry, Rain, Voice

20

"If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion."

"If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion."

Edmond de Goncourt, French Writer

Religion, God, Atheism, Insult

20

"In the recent years there have been criticisms levelled against Japan suggesting that she should offer more military forces to the United Nations forces and thereby play a more active role in the keeping and restoration of peace in various parts of the world."

"In the recent years there have been criticisms levelled against Japan suggesting that she should offer more military forces to the United Nations forces and thereby play a more active role in the keeping and restoration of peace in various parts of the world."

Kenzaburo Oe, Japanese Writer

Peace, Military, Nations, Play

19

"Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it."

"Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

Death, Life, Cycle, Existence

19

"Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things."

"Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things."

Ray Bradbury, American Writer

Creativity, Enemy, Self, Thinking

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