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Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.

Colley Cibber

When making music I sink myself into the process as deeply as I can and forget all of the success.

Enya

I want you to take away the hope because that's the thing that's killing me.

Denis Leary

To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.

George Steiner

I do write a lot from personal experience, but I also embellish a bit.

Miranda Lambert

We must never stop dreaming. Dreams provide nourishment for the soul, just as a meal does for the body. Many times in our lives we see our dreams shattered and our desires frustrated, but we have to continue dreaming. If we don't, our soul dies, and agape cannot reach it.

Paulo Coelho

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

In this century the writer has carried on a conversation with madness. We might almost say of the twentieth-century writer that he aspires to madness. Some have made it, of course, and they hold special places in our regard. To a writer, madness is a final distillation of self, a final editing down. It's the drowning out of false voices.

Don DeLillo

The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.

Francis Bacon

Always be kind, for everyone is fighting a hard battle.

Plato

Gamesters and highwaymen are generally very good to their whores, but they are very devils to their wives.

John Gay

Thoughts are circular, they don't take you anywhere. They don't have feet-they can't gain any ground. They can trap you if you don't eventually stand up and make a move.

Katie Kacvinsky