"If you like not my writing, go read something else."

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Source : Robert Burton (1859). “The anatomy of melancholy: what it is, with all the kinds, causes, symptoms, prognostics, and several cures of it. In three partitions ...”, p.42

Robert Burton

#Writing Quotes

“My life is so filled with my children, my family, and the charitable work I do.”
“Economists are always recommending the elimination of this or that market imperfection ... no astrophysicist recommends the elimination of planets that he does not like.”

Source : Lester C. Thurow (1984). “Dangerous currents: the state of economics”, Vintage
“Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?”

Source : "The Satires". Book by Aulus Persius Flaccus, V. 83,
“I hope that when I'm 80 years old, people will still be talking about my wedding.”
“I think downloading is both saving and killing the music industry at the same time.”
“Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.”
“Aiming for the marathon is a task of sorts which can include terrific highs and lows.”
“We are going to Baton Rouge and one of the most storied stadiums in the country, a place I can truthfully say is the loudest place I've ever been.”

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