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Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you're two steps ahead!.
Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you're two steps ahead!.
Yes and No are very short words to say, but we should think for some length of time before saying read more
Yes and No are very short words to say, but we should think for some length of time before saying them.
Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, read more
Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, and always count their change when it is handed to them.
Quotation... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he read more
Quotation... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give it himself, or because they are beautiful or witty, or because he expects them to touch a cord of association in his reader, or because he wishes to show that he is learned and well read. Quotations due to the last motive are invariably ill-advised; the discerning reader detects it and is contemptuous; the undiscerning is perhaps impressed, but even then is at the same time repelled, pretentious quotations being the surest road to tedium.
Some authors should be paid by the quantity NOT written.
Some authors should be paid by the quantity NOT written.
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all.
I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all.
Unlike other people, our reviewers are powerful because they believe in nothing.
Unlike other people, our reviewers are powerful because they believe in nothing.
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture; it's a really stupid thing to want to do.
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture; it's a really stupid thing to want to do.
