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Just as a heroin addict chases a substance-induced high, sex addicts are bingeing on chemicals - in this case, their own hormones. — Alexandra Katehakis

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

Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.
[Letter to Harrison Blake; November 16, 1857] — Henry David Thoreau

The poet writes the history of his own body. — Henry David Thoreau

I believe it's my pastoral duty to convert friends to atheism. — Gore Vidal

I would say that the energy on set is always the energy of the director because he's the boss. — Stephanie Sigman

The truth is, anyone can start projects. The world is full of just-started projects that looked great at the time but were never completed. — Joyce Meyer

Write while the heat is in you. — Henry David Thoreau

When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly, I think any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it. — Henry David Thoreau

Today you may write a chapter on the advantages of traveling, and tomorrow you may write another chapter on the advantages of not traveling. — Henry David Thoreau

We cannot write well or truly but what we write with gusto. — Henry David Thoreau

Writing may be either the record of a deed or a deed. It is nobler when it is a deed. — Henry David Thoreau

These irresistible men look so much more delicious than they taste. — Kathryn Walker

The more you have thought and written on a given theme, the more you can still write. Thought breeds thought. It grows under your hands. — Henry David Thoreau

We have the St. Vitus' dance, and cannot possibly keep our heads still — Henry David Thoreau

As for style of writing, if one has anything to say, it drops from him simply and directly, as a stone falls to the ground. — Henry David Thoreau

Silence in times of suffering is the best. — John Dryden

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live. — Henry David Thoreau

Schools are not equal. There are still the haves and the have-nots. — Erin Gruwell

No matter how strong you are, there is always another power which can defeat you easily! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Even though we hate some of the things we do or feel, we hate them only because we love ourselves. We feel we are unworthy of such bad stuff. — Peter Kreeft

What better use for words than to inspire:
It's not by chance desire rhymes with fire. — Joseph Roccasalvo

A sentence should be read as if its author, had he held a plough instead of a pen, could have drawn a furrow deep and straight to the end. — Henry David Thoreau

Stand out. Never fit in. — M.Q.W.

The poet is he who can write some pure mythology today without the aid of posterity. — Henry David Thoreau

CHINA'S AMBIGUOUS ROLE — Harsh V. Pant

If your plane is being hijacked by an armed man who, though prepared to take risks, presumably wants to go on living, there is room for bargaining. — Richard Dawkins

There are two classes of authors: the one write the history of their times, the other their biography. — Henry David Thoreau

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