Writing can come naturally to some. Still, when it comes to good writing, this is true: Easy reading … - Nathaniel Hawthorne

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I've gone through a lot of different phases on what I do and why I do it - morally and ethically. I've tortured myself about it, especially in dealing with success and money.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Writing can come naturally to some. Still, when it comes to good writing, this is true: Easy reading is damn hard writing.

Come, Easy, Reading, True, Writing

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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.

Know, Long Ago, Sat, Waiting, World

Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart! Else it may be their miserable fortune, when some mightier touch than their own may have awakened all her sensibilities, to be reproached even for the calm content, the marble image of happiness, which they will have imposed upon her as the warm reality.

Heart, Love, Marble, Men, Passion, Reality

Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.

Caresses, Die, Expression, Love, Roots

The moment when a man's head drops off is seldom or never, I am inclined to think, precisely the most agreeable of his life. Nevertheless, like the greater part of our misfortunes, even so serious a contingency brings its remedy and consolation with it, if the sufferer will but make the best, rather than the worst, of the accident which has befallen him.

Befallen, Men, Seldom, Serious, Sufferer, Thinking

I have come to see the nonsense of trying to describe fine scenery.

Come, Fine, Nature, Nonsense, See, Trying

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I've gone through a lot of different phases on what I do and why I do it - morally and ethically. I've tortured myself about it, especially in dealing with success and money.

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When you're trying to look pretty, it's a lot easier to compare you to other people. I always felt intimidated in pilot season trying to audition for 'the girlfriend. ' Whereas when it's like, 'you're auditioning for the part of this meth addict, trailer park whatever,' it's like, 'Great!'

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Danica Patrick

My first Indy 500 was one of my high points. I ended up qualifying fourth and I finished fourth. I had a win in Japan a few years later, and then qualifying for Daytona was great as well.

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Roberto Benigni

I remember in the circus learning that the clown was the prince, the high prince. I always thought that the high prince was the lion or the magician, but the clown is the most important.

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Terry Pratchett

One day I'll be dead and THEN you'll all be sorry.

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