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"If wrinkles must be written upon your brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old."	James Abram Garfield
"Most of our students are here to get the credentials they believe are central to admission to the Dream. Everyone does the rhetoric bit-Fascist pig this and that-but push them and they ask you to write recommendations for jobs with banks and insurance companies."	John Gargin
"On this subject I do not which to think, or speak, or write, with moderation. No! No! Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present. I am in earnest; I will not equivocate; I will not retreat a single inch; and I will be heard."	Lloyd Garrison
"The most original authors are not so because they advance what is new, but because they put what they have to say as if it had never been said before."	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own."	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"When I write love songs, people think they're really soppy -- but I see love as a consolation for the boredom of life."	Martin Gore
"You must write for children in the same way as you do for adults, only better."	Maxim Gorky
"Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the Mona Lisa painted by a club? Could the New Testament have been composed as a conference report? Creative ideas do not spring from groups. They spring from individuals. The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam."	A. Whitney Griswold
"Everything can be learned, including, to a very large extent, to be what you are not. You can learn to be pretty if you are plain, charming if you are dull, thin if you are fat, youthful if you are aging, how to write though you are inarticulate, how to make money though you are not good with figures."	Henry Anatole Grunwald
"The verb 'to love' in Persian is 'to have a friend.' 'I love you' translated literally is 'I have you as a friend,' and 'I don't like you' simply means 'I don't have you as a friend.'"	Shusha Guppy
"The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased."	Alexander Hamilton
"As we were driving, we saw a sign that said 'Watch For Rocks.' Marta said it should read 'Watch For PRETTY Rocks.' I told her she should write in her suggestion to the highway department, but she started saying it was a joke---just to get out of writing a simple letter! And I thought I was lazy!"	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
"If I had the time to sit down and write a thank-you note to everyone who sent me a nice, expensive present, what a wonderful world that would be!"	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
"In youth men are apt to write more wisely than they really know or feel; and the remainder of life may be not idly spent in realizing and convincing themselves of the wisdom which they uttered long ago."	Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done. One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen."	Robert Anson Heinlein
"If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves."	Lillian Hellman
"Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped."	Lillian Hellman
"I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone else has done though you might have done it if they hadn't."	Ernest Miller Hemingway
"The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone."	Ernest Miller Hemingway
"When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature."	Ernest Miller Hemingway
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	John Cheever	John Fitzgerald Kennedy
John Gargin	Joseph Conrad	Josh Billings
Jules Renard	Julie Arabi	J. F. Boyse
Leo Tolstoy	Lewis Mumford	Lillian Hellman
Lloyd Garrison	Lyndon Baines Johnson	Mario M(atthew) Cuomo
Mark Twain	Mark S. Hertzog	Martin Gore
Martin Luther	Martin Luther King, Jr.	Maxim Gorky
Meg Chittenden	Micheál MacLiammóir	Napolean Hill
Nathaniel Hawthorne	Omar Khayyám	Peter Brodie
Peter Cochrane	Peter Kropotkin	Phillip K. Dick
Phillips Brooks	Rachel Louise Carson	Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ring Lardner	Robert Heinlein	Robertson Davies
Robert Anson Heinlein	Russell Lynes	Samuel Butler
Sandra Cisneros	Saul David Alinsky	Shusha Guppy
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette	Sir Francis Bacon	Sir James Matthew Barrie
Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill	Sophia Loren	Stephen King
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort	Thomas Carlyle	Thomas Alva Edison
Thomas Berger	Truman Capote	T.S. Eliot
T. S. Eliot	Van Wyck Brooks	Victor Hugo
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