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A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains. Maxim Gorky
Good Man Good Man Stupid Bad Must Bad Man Still Brains
Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not. Nathaniel Hawthorne
Respect World Important Every Some Individual He Whether Place Chooses Fill
Easy reading is damn hard writing. Nathaniel Hawthorne
Writing Reading Damn Easy Easy Reading Hard
Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer. Norman Mailer
You Single Back Never Obsession Most Because Answer Coming Question Get Same Human Human Activity Keep Activity Wasteful
Lies can be wonderful things, and when a lie is told artfully, if it's done with a degree of craftsmanship, I can't help but admire the liar. Patrick deWitt
Lie Wonderful Liar Degree Lies Admire Wonderful Things Done Craftsmanship Help Things
Everything is possible, from angels to demons to economists and politicians. Paulo Coelho
Politicians Everything Possible Angels Economists Demons
I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me. If it was not me, if I was pretending to be someone else, then this could unbalance my world, but I know who I am. Paulo Coelho
Me Soul Hurt World Pretending Else Critics Someone My Soul Could Write Know Because Am Then Reason Who
The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever. Paulo Coelho
Good Old Gone Good Old Days Had Idea Days Forever Owner Old Days Each
I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness. Paulo Coelho
Happiness Money Rich Related Because Always Person Rich Person
The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it. Remy de Gourmont
Truth You Truth Is Find About Terrible Terrible Thing Quest Thing
The true currency of life is time, not money, and we've all got a limited stock of that. Robert Harris
Life Time Money True Limited Got Stock Currency
Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it. Robertson Davies
People Become Extraordinary Extraordinary People Circumstances More Most Terrible Because Survive
The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Jealous Jealousy Smell Alike Betrayed
Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age. Sinclair Lewis
Age Old Poet Whatever Orator Old Age Say Sage Still May
It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs. Thomas Hardy
Woman Language Made Men Feelings Difficult Define Chiefly Which Express Her
I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being. Thornton Wilder
Art Theatre Human Being Sense Way Immediate Share Most Another Greatest Art Forms Human Being Regard Which Forms
When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home. Thornton Wilder
Home You Wish Having Adventure Safe Were
Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value. Thornton Wilder
Love Love Is Value Own Energy Exists Itself Which
At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough. Toni Morrison
Life You World Remember Beauty Enough Photograph Some Point Becomes Paint Even Need
No one ever talks about the moment you found that you were white. Or the moment you found out you were black. That's a profound revelation. The minute you find that out, something happens. You have to renegotiate everything. Toni Morrison
You Black White Everything Out Find Minute About Something No-One Talks Revelation Were Happens Moment Found Ever Profound
My children are delightful people, whom I would love even if they weren't my children. Toni Morrison
Love People Would Delightful Were Children Even Whom
A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect. Walter Scott
Knowledge History Mechanic Lawyer Possesses Some Architect He Mere Mason Venture Call Himself Without May Literature Working
O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken! Walter Scott
Moving On Broken Heart Word Random Mark Wound Finds Shaft Spoken Soothe May Little Sent Meant Many
One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation. Walter Scott
Life Risks Worth Honor Men Glorious Action Waters Those Marsh Sluggish Steal Crowded Through Observation Noble Hour Like Without Years Existence Either Which Mean Decorum Full Whole Filled Paltry Chance
The easiest thing to do on earth is not write. William Goldman
Earth Easiest Easiest Thing Write Thing
A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible. William Makepeace Thackeray
Man Fool Ugly Clever Every Handsome Irresistible Ladies Then Successful Now Now And Then
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