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Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another. Joseph Addison

Life Nature Man Grief Humanity Enough Adding Our Evils Had Cruel Calamity Sorrows Another Continually Condition Subject Very Sown Common Aggravating Pains Treatment

Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor. Joseph Addison

Better Honor Thousand Wound Ten Deaths Than Die

Children need models rather than critics. Joseph Joubert

Critics Rather Than Models Children Need

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you. Joseph Joubert

You Will Unless Find Some Poetry Nowhere Bring

I've never liked the moment of seeing something beautiful - a sunset, a moose, an elephant - and then raising a camera and trying to capture it for some future moment. That's always struck me as strange. Joseph Monninger

Christ appeared alive on several occasions after the cataclysmic events of that first Easter. Josh McDowell

Events Christ First Several Alive Easter Cataclysmic Occasions After Appeared

The secret to multitasking is that it isn't actually multitasking. It's just extreme focus and organization. Joss Whedon

Organization Focus Secret Extreme Just Multitasking Actually

Never sit at a table you can't walk away from. Joss Whedon

You Walk Sit Table Never Away

I always was an early-morning or late-night writer. Early morning was my favorite; late night was because you had a deadline. And at four in the morning, you make up some of your most absurd jokes. Joss Whedon

So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to each other. It produces a dialogue among people that guards all of us against manipulation by our so-called leaders. June Jordan

I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect. June Jordan

Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke our natural self into the weird, lying, barbarous, unreal, white speech and writing habits that the schools lay down like holy law. June Jordan

Me You Natural Writing Law Political Language Sister White Down Lying Our Brother Brother And Sister Unreal Lay Habits Self Weird Like Supposed Schools Holy Choke Why Speech

God bless perseverance. Because it's not easy. Junot Diaz

God Perseverance Easy Bless Because God Bless

You see, in my view a writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent, because everything she does is golden. In my view a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway. Junot Diaz

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I'm one of those sad cases who've never wanted to be anything but a writer. I started writing my first novel when I was five years old. I have no idea what it was about, but I do remember spending considerable time trying to get the title right, though this had more to do with crayon colour than scansion. Justine Larbalestier

Sad Time Writing Remember Old First Considerable Spending Those Though No Idea About Cases More Writer Colour Never Had Idea Years Five Than Get Trying Wanted Anything Title Novel Right Started

Steampunk is not a group of children in a classroom, sitting quietly while the teacher reads a story; it's the kids at recess, playing a wild, endless game of pretend. Kaja Foglio

Teacher Game Group Wild Kids Pretend Classroom Reads Quietly Sitting Endless Children Story While Playing Recess

When I was a kid, I watched a lot of 'Twilight Zone.' My mother was obsessed with the show, as it was a staple of her childhood - and thus she made it one of ours, too. Kameron Hurley

Mother Made Too Kid Ours Obsessed Thus She Lot Childhood Show Staple Twilight Her Watched Zone

People should be a little loony, Helena. That's the best thing about them. Karel Capek

Best People About Loony Little Them Helena Should Thing

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