#person

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose. ↗

— Voltaire

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What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy. ↗

— Voltaire

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Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

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Look at Iraq; look at Afghanistan, where at great personal physical risk people have gone to the polls and have rejected the appeal from Bin Laden and his allies to stay at home. ↗

— Gijs de Vries

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As an actor you become that lighting rod between the person who made the play and the audience. ↗

— Christopher Walken

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For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged. ↗

— Alice Walker

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I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame. ↗

— Alice Walker

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Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for. ↗

— Alice Walker

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I've learned that life is very tricky business: Each person needs to find what they want to do in life and not be dissuaded when people question them. ↗

— Eli Wallach

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I was the kind of person who got bullied and loved the attention of it. ↗

— David Walliams

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