Writing is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. - Catherine Drinker Bowen

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As blue chips turn into penny stocks, Wall Street seems less like a symbol of America's macho capitalism and more like that famous Jane Austen character Mrs. Bennet, a flibbertigibbet always anxious about getting richer and her 'poor nerves. '

Catherine Drinker Bowen

Writing is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living.

Apart, Double, Kind, Writing

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For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.

Born, Healing, Realization, Writing

Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind.

Life, Kindness, Writing, Double, Reality

What the writer needs is an empty day ahead.

Needs, Empty, Day, Writer, Ahead

Biographers, by their very nature, want to know everything about everybody, dead or alive.

Alive, Dead, Everybody, Everything, Knows, Want

History is, in its essence, exciting; to present it as dull is, to my mind, stark and unforgivable misrepresentation.

Essence, History, Mind, Stark

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Sometimes, soulmates may meet, stay together until a task or life lesson is completed, and then move on. This is not a tragedy, only a matter of learning.

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There is no fear. There are only two things. Trained and untrained.

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Maureen Dowd

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Colin Blakemore

The painter who strives to represent reality must transcend his own perception. He must ignore or override the very mechanismsin his mInd that create objects out of images(symbols). . . The artist, like the eye, must provide true images and the clues of distance to tell his magic lies.

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Women of all classes are awakening to the necessity of self-support, but few are willing to do the ordinary useful work for which they are fitted.

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