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I'm not overweight. I'm just nine inches too short. ↗

— Shelley Winters

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And let me tell you, you boys of America, that there is no higher inspiration to any man to be a good man, a good citizen, and a good son, brother, or father, than the knowledge that you come from honest blood. ↗

— John Sergeant Wise

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THE autumn of 1850 brought an event freighted with deep significance to me. My mother died. ↗

— John Sergeant Wise

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Success comes to a writer as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and realize the heights to which he has climbed. ↗

— P. G. Wodehouse

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What we wanted from an agent depended on what he brought in. ↗

— Markus Wolf

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Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really of the first order. ↗

— Tobias Wolff

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We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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We sought out and visited all the Indians hereabouts that we could meet with, in number about twenty. They were chiefly in one place, about a mile from where we lodged. ↗

— John Woolman

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Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher. ↗

— William Wordsworth

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