E.C. Fisher Favourite Quotes Collection

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I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
Abraham LincolnReligion 108
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When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.
Abraham LincolnEnthusiasm 49
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If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
Abraham LincolnCoffee 179
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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his arent very new at all.
Abraham LincolnThoughts 77
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Be sure you put your feet in the right place then stand firm.
Abraham Lincolnbelief 351
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I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place very day.
Albert CamusJudgment 43
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Martyrs must choose between being forgotten, mocked or made use of. As for being understood, never!
Albert CamusUnderstanding 104
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Writers, be patient with your characters, they are doing the best they can with the world you have given them.
Brant LandonWriting 60
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When your characters start to rebel at what you're trying to make them do, or refuse to say the words you're trying to cram into their mouths, that's when you know you've done it right.
Ken StarkWriting 53
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Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
Stephen Kingwriting 250
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There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
Ernest Hemingwaywriting 126
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Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.
Kathleen Thompson NorrisBooks 73
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Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being.
Paul De ManBooks 108
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To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul.
CiceroBooks 60
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Books worth reading once are worth reading twice; and what is most important of all, the masterpieces of literature are worth reading a thousand times.
John MorleyBooks 149
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Always forgive your enemies, nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar WildeForgiveness 62
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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Oscar WildeTruth 86
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In this world there are only two tragedies: One is not getting what one wants, and the second is getting it.
Oscar WildeDesires 85
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This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.
Winston ChurchillPerseverance 164
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I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
Winston ChurchillGod 197
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If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.
Woody AllenGod 169
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