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The secret is to write just anything, to dare to write just anything, because when you write just anything, you begin to say what is important.


Julian Green

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EARL LONG The love you get, is equal to the love you give.
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ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
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ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
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STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't see how you can write anything of value if you don't offend someone.
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JULIAN CASABLANCAS Untested assumptions and lazy habits of thought can be shown up, once put in a spotlight of a differ...
JULIAN BAGGINI The land of embarrassment and breakfast.
JULIAN BARNES The writer's life is full of frailty and defeat like any other life. What counts is the work. Yet th...
JULIAN BARNES You grew old first not in your own eyes,but in other people's eyes;slowly,you agreed with their opin...
JULIAN BARNES Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to yo...
JULIAN BARNES The secret of happiness is to be happy already
JULIAN BARNES The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature; only then can he see clearly
JULIAN BARNES Me and my books, in the same apartment: like a gherkin in its vinegar.
JULIAN BARNES I have to say, I'm good with gifts. If I find something perfect for a certain person, I'll j...
JULIAN CASABLANCAS If I hung one of my paintings next to someone else's, I knew mine would kind of pop off the wall...
JULIAN SCHNABEL I'm not saying I'm the only Jewish person who cares about Palestinian people, but unfortunat...
JULIAN SCHNABEL I do think that some of us began to realize that this was going to be a long struggle that was going...
JULIAN BOND I don't assume that I am going to be cast as a Glaswegian landlord.
JULIAN OVENDEN It's a significant contribution if we can get immigration reform done.
JULIAN CASTRO No matter how convinced we are that someone is nasty, evil or just plain criminal, if they have not ...
JULIAN BAGGINI Stopping leaks is a new form of censorship.
JULIAN ASSANGE It's not leftovers that are wasteful, but those who either don't know what to do with them o...
JULIAN BAGGINI It is true that legality is not morality, and sticking to the law is necessary for good citizenship,...
JULIAN BAGGINI As my family story shows, Latinos have been a blessing for USA for many generations. The future of A...
JULIAN CASTRO The thing about Mumbai is you go five yards and all of human existence is revealed. It's an incr...
JULIAN SANDS 'Easy listening' is a term that is often used incorrectly.
JULIAN OVENDEN