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#1

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

tags: intelligence, self-deprecation

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#2

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
― Mark Twain

tags: attributed-no-source, education

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#3

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

tags: books, writing

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#4

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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#5

“Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

tags: darlings, deleting, editing, kill, revising, writing

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#6

“Writing is not life, but I think that sometimes it can be a way back to life.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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#7

“I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.”
― Maya Angelou

tags: attributed, attributed-no-source, education, intelligence, knowledge, unsourced

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#8

“Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
― Fran Lebowitz, The Fran Lebowitz Reader

tags: advice-for-daily-living, books, reader, reading, speaking, thinking, wisdom

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#9

“Radical simply means "grasping things at the root.”
― Angela Davis

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#10

“We tell ourselves stories in order to live.”
― Joan Didion, The White Album

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#11

“The past is always tense, the future perfect.”
― Zadie Smith

tags: future, grammar, language, past

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