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My attitude to writing is like when you do wallpapering, you remember where all the little bits are that don't meet. And then your friends say: It's terrific! ↗

— Harrison Birtwistle

#bits #friends #like #little #little bits

I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless. ↗

— Bette Davis

#am #apple #breeds #compulsive #devoured

The first time I picked up a bat in a professional game, I hit a ball hard left-handed, and my first home run was so effortless, it surprised me. ↗

— Chili Davis

#bat #effortless #first #first time #game

One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things. ↗

— Harrison Birtwistle

#basic #basic things #i #music #one thing

This nation was conceived in liberty and dedicated to the principle - among others - that honest men may honestly disagree; that if they all say what they think, a majority of the people will be able to distinguish truth from error. ↗

— Elmer Davis

#among #conceived #dedicated #disagree #distinguish

A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender. ↗

— Jim Bishop

#bartender #book #critic #drunk #good

Politics ruins the character. ↗

— Otto von Bismarck

#politics #ruins

When you read about a car crash in which two or three youngsters are killed, do you pause to dwell on the amount of love and treasure and patience parents poured into bodies no longer suitable for open caskets? ↗

— Jim Bishop

#amount #bodies #car #crash #dwell

It is impossible to read for pleasure from something to which you are both father and mother, born in such travail that the writer despises the thing that enslaved him. ↗

— Jim Bishop

#both #despises #enslaved #father #him

And I believe that the best buy in public health today must be a combination of regular physical exercise and a healthy diet. ↗

— Julie Bishop

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