"For heaven's sake, don't write writing. Write reading!"

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Source : Avi (2008). “A Beginning, a Muddle, and an End: The Right Way to Write Writing”, p.37, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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“The study of butterflies-creatures selected as the types of airiness and frivolity-instead of being despised, will some day be valued as one of the most important branches of Biological science.”

Source : Henry Walter Bates (1864). “The Naturalist on the River Amazons: A Record of Adventures, Habits of Animals, Sketches of Brazilian and Indian Life, and Aspects of Nature Under the Equator, During Eleven Years of Travel”, p.413
“With weak balance sheets, banks tend to continue lending unprofitable businesses and leave them existing.”
“I don't smoke much pot anymore.”
“The nature of this flower is to bloom.”

Source : "The Girl God". Book by Alice Walker, 2012.
“Hillary Clinton is making income inequality a central theme in her campaign. Yeah, for example, today she pointed out that her husband makes $300 million a year. She has to get by on $200 million a year, and that's not fair.”
“The stoicism that comes of endurance has something of death in it.”

Source : Mary Hartwell Catherwood (2012). “Lazarre”, p.344, tredition
“Wisdom and folly are equal before the face of Infinity, for Infinity knows them not.”

Source : Leonid Andreyev, Ivan Alekseevich Bunin (1918). “Lazarus”
“It seems strange that the Mother of the race should be made the Slave of the Fruits of her Womb. It appears peculiar that she should have no privileges except those received through her son. It seems illogical that the God Principle of the Universe, in its infinite wisdom, should endanger the existence of the Race by making the Mother of it the weak, cringing underling of her husband.”

Source : Hilton Hotema (1998). “Secret of Regeneration”, p.276, Health Research Books

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