Not every story has explosions and car chases. That's why they have nudity and espionage.

—Blaise Pascal

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Blaise Pascal (19 June 1623 – 19 August 1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher, and Catholic writer.

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The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread.

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Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.

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The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.

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I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.

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If the weak hand, that has recorded this tale, has, by its scenes, beguiled the mourner of one hour of sorrow, or, by its moral, taught him to sustain it - the effort, however humble, has not been vain, nor is the writer unrewarded.

—Ann Radcliffe

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I always wrote with the idea that what I put out there is going to stay there. Once I publish something, it has been published. I've never deleted more than one or two posts from my site. I don't think that there are takebacks. I don't feel right about it.

—Alison Headley

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I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worries and only half the royalties.

—Agatha Christie

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Never tell anyone that you're writing a book, going on a diet, exercising, taking a course, or quitting smoking. They'll encourage you to death.

—Lynn Johnston

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

—Henry David Thoreau

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