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contempt despised
Contempt is not a thing to be despised. Edmund Burke
contempt heard held people president
Unfortunately I think that the young people must feel they are held in contempt by the president and not heard by him. Bruno Julliard
contempt hold naturally
I can't hold too much contempt for him, because naturally he would be disappointed. Danny Green
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When the good of science or economic interests prevail over the good of the person, and ultimately of whole societies, environmental destruction is a sign of a real contempt for man. Pope John
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Nabokov, who I loved more than any other writer when I was young, had such contempt for dialogue. When I was younger, I never wrote a word of dialogue because of him. I thought it was a childish part of a novel. Zadie Smith
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My worst boss was a departmental chair who never learned to appreciate new developments in the field. He had contempt for students and younger researchers, and he saw the job of running the department as a nuisance. Steven Pinker
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Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither feeling is quite within our control Arthur Schopenhauer
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There are some of his sayings which show him to have been a devout Jew, others that he wished to destroy Judaism, others showing that he held all people except the Jews in contempt and that the wished to save no others, others showing that he wished Robert Ingersoll
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I grew up to have my father's looks- my father's speech patterns-my father's posture- my father's opinions and my mother's contempt for my father Jules Feiffer
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Do you know at this very moment you are surrounded by eternity? And do you know that you can use that eternity if you so desire? Carlos Castaneda
words-of-wisdom cheerful poor
Can you suppose there's any harm in looking as cheerful and being as cheerful as our poor circumstances will permit? Charles Dickens
words-of-wisdom records trials
Have I yet to learn that the hardest and best-borne trials are those which are never chronicled in any earthly record, and are suffered every day!
words-of-wisdom classic trifles
Trifles make the sum of life.
words-of-wisdom said being-true
Everybody said so. Far be it from me to assert that what everybody says must be true. Everybody is, often, as likely to be wrong as right.
words-of-wisdom speech earnest
A word in earnest is as good as a speech.
words-of-wisdom crowds noise
Anything that makes a noise is satisfactory to a crowd.
words-of-wisdom surprise me-alone
Surprises, like misfortunes, seldom come alone.
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Captain Cuttle, like all mankind, little knew how much hope had survived within him under discouragement, until he felt its death-shock.
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If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works. John Dos Passos
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Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it. Jean Paul
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Most writers I know go for word counts, and I used to be a journalist, so I guess that's ingrained. Aminatta Forna
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Most writers can tell stories of how their books failed to be made into films. Claire Tomalin
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Say what you have to say in the fewest possible words. Arthur Bryant
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In some articles written about me, writers have said I'm a link between the old and the new, and I think, in a certain sense, that's legitimate. Robert Klein
writers
'Monty Python' and 'The Simpsons' have ruined comedy for writers for the rest of our lives. Scott Adsit
writers
Everything can be grist for the muse. Sometimes, writers draw on personal experiences. 'Ghoul' was just that. Brian Keene
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I sometimes think that what I do as a writer is make a kind of colouring book, where all the lines are there, and then you put in the colour. John Irving
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I wrote 'The Kiss' 12 hours a day for six months. Kathryn Harrison
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I write in a journal first, briefly. Then read something I've read many times before, for about half an hour, then rework what I wrote the day before. Kent Haruf
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Writing is the hardest thing I know, but it was the only thing I wanted to do. I wrote for 20 years and published nothing before my first book.
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I wrote out little mysteries in longhand, and my mother typed them out on an old Remington. Alan Furst
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I don't know how old I was when I started writing books. But, I was born in 1931, and I wrote my first book in 1961.
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I wrote as a kid, but I never wanted to be a writer, particularly. I had been drawing and painting for years and loved that. Gail Carson Levine
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My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig. Alice Walker
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My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too. Natalie Babbitt
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In 1981, I was a futurist - or at least I was a guy who put on a futurist hat occasionally - and I wrote about the 21st century. William Gibson