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Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#curse #deep #literature #snare #toil

And now, without having wearied my friends, I hope, with detailed scientific accounts, theories, or deductions, I will only say that I have endeavoured to tell just the story of the adventure itself. ↗

— Joshua Slocum

#adventure #deductions #detailed #endeavoured #friends

They're not shooting me for deserting the United Stated Army - thousands of guys have done that. They're shooting me for bread I stole when I was 12 years old. ↗

— Eddie Slovik

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The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God. ↗

— T. E. Lawrence

#god #him #look #sure #too

But if you know that something has been really vicious, you don't read it, you don't let it into your head. What's damaging is when sentences go through your head and you burn with the injustice of it. ↗

— Nigella Lawson

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Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

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The artist is seen like a producer of commodities, like a factory that turns our refrigerators. ↗

— Sol LeWitt

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A cake is a very good test of an oven: if it browns too much on one side and not on the other, it's not your fault - you need to have your oven checked. ↗

— Delia Smith

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We are all born naked into this world, but each of us is fully clothed in potential. ↗

— Emmitt Smith

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The Romans, we are told, were by nature a peculiarly warlike race. ↗

— Goldwin Smith

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