"A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people."

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Source : "Essays of Three Decades". Book by Thomas Mann, 1942.

Thomas Mann

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“Writing is a deeper sleep than death. Just as one wouldn't pull a corpse from its grave, I can't be dragged from my desk at night.”
“Protecting the city is my job, which doesn't translate into hatred. This is war, and in most wars, professional soldiers don't hate the enemy. Hatred can blind you in ways that mar your judgment.”

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“I am delighted at Des's support in these elections. And thank him for his rewrite of the lyrics of Send in the Clowns which we are planning to sing at our South East conference.”
“I grew up on Bette Davis movies, and Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe.”
“Nothing grows old-fashioned so fast as modernity.”
“If your child is more important than your vision of your child, life becomes easier.”
“We're apt to fall in love with those who are mysterious and challenging to us.”

Source : "The mysteries of love" by Sara Reistad-Long, www.realsimple.com.
“No one really knows what I'm really like, and you won't unless you spend a day with me, or if you're my friend. No one ever knows what anyone is really like. Read all the interviews you want on them, it's just the media talking and you can't really get to know someone that way, obviously.”

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