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    “It’s not a lie. It’s a gift for fiction.”
    ― David Mamet
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    Oscar Wilde
    “A good friend will always stab you in the front.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: friends-betrayal
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    “The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.”
    ― William James Dally
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    François Mauriac
    “I believe that only poetry counts ... A great novelist is first of all a great poet.”
    ― François Mauriac
    tags: fiction, poetry, writing
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    Robert Hughes
    “The greater the artist, the greater the doubt.”
    ― Robert Hughes
    tags: writing, writing-advice, writing-life
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
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    Heinrich Heine
    “Das war ein Vorspiel nur; dort wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man auch am Ende Menschen."

    (Almansor)”
    ― Heinrich Heine, Gesammelte Werke
    tags: book-burning, books, bücherverbrennung, freedom-of-thought, human-rights, meinungsfreiheit, menschenwürde, oppression, toleranz, torture
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    Mark Twain
    “Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.”
    ― Mark Twain
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    William Shakespeare
    “Why, what's the matter,
    That you have such a February face,
    So full of frost, of storm and cloudiness?”
    ― William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
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human-rights
meinungsfreiheit
menschenwürde
oppression
toleranz
torture