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When asked, "Why do you always wear black?", he said, "I am mourning for my life. — Anton Chekhov

The modern cheap and fertile press, with all its translations, has done little to bring us nearer to the heroic writers of antiquity. — Henry David Thoreau

What is a modern poet's fate? / To write his thoughts upon a slate; / The critic spits on what is done, / Gives it a wipe - and all is gone. — Thomas Hood

Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike out his teeth. — Walter Raleigh

The people must remain ever vigilant against tyrants masquerading as public servants. — George Washington

What's known as bleeding-edge technology," sez Lucas. "No proven use, high risk, something only early-adoption addicts feel comfortable with. — Thomas Pynchon

In hock to the excitements and commercial advantages of rage, the news cruelly ignores the project of consolation. — Alain De Botton

I think some of the best modern writing comes now from travellers. — Michael Palin

I can think of no one more qualified to write about the modern South than Curtis Wilkie — Willie Morris

He allowed us to choreograph the sex scenes. — Linda Fiorentino

You couldn't even write me a paper about the roles you would dream of playing in modern musical theatre. — Elaine Paige

Writing is the Latin of our times. The modern language of the people is video and sound. — Lawrence Lessig

My house is modern, but I like my writing room to be old fashioned. I write on a little wooden secretary desk. — Janet Fitch

multitude of books is a great evil — Clay Shirky

I cannot understand why some people try to write a history of photography that is separated from the history of modern art. — Jean-Francois Chevrier

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before. — Edith Wharton

The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems a semi-madman. — Boris Pasternak

Men must speak English who can write Sanskrit; they must speak a modern language who write, perchance, an ancient and universal one. — Henry David Thoreau

Modern music is people who can't think signing artists who can't write songs to make records for people who can't hear. — Frank Zappa

I love new writing, new blood, modern works by unknown writers. — Joseph Fiennes

The problem with being an author in this modern world is such: computers break often; books don't — Emma Iadanza

Remember The Poem ... — R.M. Engelhardt

The default mode of modern writing about art is to despise any notion of singularity as so much overheated genius-fetishism. — Simon Schama

A baby isn't meant to stay a baby forever, and neither is a new Christian. — Billy Graham

Every day I have many choices to make about who I want to be. — Amanda Lindhout

In the glad old days, before the rise of modern morbidities ... it used to be thought a disadvantage to be misunderstood. — G.K. Chesterton

(the modern writer's aim is) general revelation by suggestion (and) making a very tiny part do for a whole. — Sean O'Faolain

Many modern novels have a beginning, a muddle and an end. — Philip Larkin

The ancient historians gave us delightful fiction in the form of fact; the modern novelist presents us with dull facts under the guise of fiction. — Oscar Wilde

Tolerating is the gift from God to women! — Rainer Maria Rilke