I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to...
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Simone De Beauvoir
I only want to write. And there's no college for that except life.
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Dodie Smith
I choose to write because it's perfect for me. It's an escape, a place I can go to hide. It's a friend, when I feel out casted from everyone else. It's a journal, when the only story I can tell is my own. <span style="margin:15px;...
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Alysha Speer
That's what I do. Watch movies and read. Sometimes I even pretend to write, but I'm not fooling anyone. Oh, and I go to the mailbox.
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Nicole Krauss
Question like a child, reason like an adult, and write like a sage.
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Criss Jami
More Quotes By Seamus Heaney
It is always betterto avenge dear ones than to indulge in mourning. For every one of us, living in this worldmeans waiting for our end. Let whoever canwin glory before death. When a warrior is gone, that will be his best and only bulwark.
History says, Don’t hope On this side of the grave, But then, once in a lifetime The longed-for tidal wave Of justice can rise up, And hope and history rhyme
If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way.
All I know is a door into the dark
I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on in the world.
