#give

To recognize negativism as a force of creation is to give up the creative standpoint altogether. ↗

— Paul Twitchell

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They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more. ↗

— Samuel Beckett

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The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

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To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

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I don't want to say I hear voices; well, actually I do hear voices, but I don't think it's supernatural. I think it's just that when characters are given enough texture and backbone, then lo and behold, they stand on their own. ↗

— Anne Tyler

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