"Don't write anything down, but save everything that anyone else writes down."

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Source : 1995 Advice for political survival in Washington. In the US News and World Report, 9 Jan.

Maureen Dowd

#Writing Quotes

“Writing songs about fancying people in dance clubs is all very well but it's not the be-all and end-all. There are other topics.”
“Time sheds a softness on remote objects or events, as local distance imparts to the landscape a smoothness and mellowness which disappear on a nearer approach.”

Source : William Benton Clulow (1843). “Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion”, p.160
“Self-evident, adj. Evident to one's self and to nobody else.”
“The American dream? We don't have a dream in Britain because we're bloody awake!”
“Animals are unpredictable things, and so our life is unpredictable. It's a long tale of little triumphs and disasters and you've got to really like it to stick it.”

Source : James Herriot (2012). “If Only They Could Talk: The classic memoirs of a 1930s vet”, p.34, Pan Macmillan
“We in the media are just people with all of people's faults.”
“As more and more people awaken to the threats against our basic rights online, we must start a debate - everywhere - about the web we want.”
“The girl who chooses to be modest, chooses to be respected.”

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