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I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time. ↗

— Charles Dickens

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We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves. ↗

— Denis Diderot

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People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all. ↗

— Annie Dillard

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We have to make philosophy itself an object of philosophical concern. ↗

— Wilhelm Dilthey

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If there was anything that I learned with my own writing process, maybe there's too many choices what to write about. Just the amount of subject matter in the world these days; maybe that feels chaotic for me. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

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It's a little bit late in the day for men to object that women are getting outside their proper sphere. ↗

— Marjory Stoneman Douglas

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To write for PC reasons, because you think you ought to be dealing with this subject, is never going to yield anything that is really going to matter to anyone else. It has to matter to you. ↗

— Rita Dove

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I'm fascinated by how much we, as women, have to subjugate and hide ourselves in order to get on in the world. ↗

— Minnie Driver

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All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey. ↗

— John Dryden

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I love to read different books on completely different subjects at the same time. I cannot focus on one. I read a few pages of literature, then I jump to philosophy and at the same time I'm reading biographies of Mahler. ↗

— Gustavo Dudamel

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