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Letter "D" » driven
«A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results»
«As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.»
«A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood.»
«Better to be driven out from among men than to be disliked by children»
«After all, what is a pedestrian? He is a man who has two cars-one being driven by his wife, the other by one of his children.»
«A nail is driven out by another nail; habit is overcome by habit»
«But when the self speaks to the self, who is speaking? The entombed soul, the spirit driven in, in, in to the central catacomb; the self that took the veil and left the world -- a coward perhaps, yet somehow beautiful, as it flits with its lantern restlessly up and down the dark corridors.»
Author: Virginia Woolf
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Writer)
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The central,
the self,
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«All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery. Writing a book is a long, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.»
Author: George Orwell
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Novelist)
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Keywords:
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«Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses»
«An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.»