"To copy faults is want of sense."

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Source : Charles Churchill (1766). “Poems”, p.19

Charles Churchill

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“It's a perfectly human instinct to want to be near water.”
“Don't you know sugar is brown first? White folks couldn't stand the fact that something so sweet shared the same color as the people who cut the cane, slopped the hogs and picked the cotton. So they bleached it to resemble them, and now they done gone and fooled everybody. You included.”

Source : Bernice L. McFadden (2001). “Sugar: A Novel”, p.39, Penguin
“Do not place a photograph of your favourite author on your desk, especially if the author is one of the famous ones who committed suicide.”

Source : "Roddy Doyle's rules for writers". Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2010.
“We have so few women in Congress. We are so underrepresented and whether we like it or not, we are in area - in an era that still the women, the handful that are there, have two jobs: they represent the constituency that they're from, and they also represent the women of the nation or the state or sometimes as Maloney has done, of the world.”

Source : Interview with Joanne Bamberger, www.blogher.com. December 22, 2008.
“The word Atman (Soul) means the "breath of life". Atman is the principle of man's life, the Soul that pervades his being, his breath, his intellect and transcends them. Atman is what remains when everything that is not the self is eliminated. It is the unborn and immortal element in man, which is not to be confused with body, mind or intellect.”
“Liverpool was an industrial town, a poor town. The people fought hard for what they wanted to achieve and there was a hunger there, and that hunger has remained with the musicians.”
“You get what you think about, whether you want it or not. Commit to thinking about what you want, rather than how impossible or difficult that dream may seem.”
“I will be a president in a skirt, but I will wear the pants.”

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