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«Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.»
«The only solid piece of scientific truth about which I feel totally confident is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature... It is this sudden confrontation with the depth and scope of ignorance that represents the most significant contribution of twentieth-century science to the human intellect.»
Author: Lewis Thomas
(Physician, Writer)
| Keywords:
confident, confrontation, confrontations, contribution, profoundly, represents, scope, significant, solid, twentieth, twentieth century
«The most solid advice for a writer is this, I think: Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough»
Author: William Saroyan
(Writer)
| About:
Writers,
Writing
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advice, alive, alive with, angry, As Good as Dead, as much as possible, breathe, deeply, eat, food, food for thought, good and, in good taste, like hell, much as, solid, solidest, soon enough, taste, wholly, writer
«Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism.»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
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academic, Academics, hundreds, information, journalism, possessing, shred, shredded, solid, solidest, thanks, topic, training, virtually
«There is no such thing necessarily in a dictatorial regime of iron-clad absolutely solid evidence. The evidence I had was the best possible evidence that he had a weapon.»
«The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.»
Author: John Steinbeck
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Books
| Keywords:
horse racing, race horse, racing, solid, stable
«Switzerland is simply a large, lumpy, solid rock with a thin skin of grass stretched over it.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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lumpy, solid, stretched, Switzerland, thin-skinned, thin
«So they [the Government] go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful for impotence.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
adamant, decided, drift, fluidity, impotence, irresolute, paradox, resolved, solid, undecided