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«Cats are dangerous companions for writers because cat watching is a near-perfect method of writing avoidance»
Author: Dan Greenburg
| About:
Cats,
Writers
| Keywords:
avoidance, CAT, cats, companions, method, near, perfect, this method, watching, writers, writing
«All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated...As therefore the bell that rings to a sermon, calls not upon the preacher only, but upon the congregation to come: so this bell calls us all: but how much more me, who am brought so near the door by this sickness....No man is an island, entire of itself...any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.»
Author: John Donne
| Keywords:
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«Eve was not taken out of Adam's head to top him, neither out of his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected by him, and near his heart to be loved by him.»
«For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
apart, far and near, meeting, near, separation
«All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must seem inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near.»
«As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.»
Author: Chanakya
(Politician, strategist, Writer)
| Keywords:
approaches, attack, destroy, near, The Fear
«Better do a kindness near home than go far to burn incense»
Author: Chinese Proverbs
| Keywords:
burn, far and near, Going Home, go far, home, incense, incensed, kindness, near
«A professional politician is a professionally dishonourable man. In order to get anywhere near high office he has to make so many compromises and submit to so many humiliations that he becomes indistinguishable from a streetwalker.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
anywhere, compromised, compromises, compromising, dishonourable, humiliations, indistinguishable, near, office, politician, professional, professionally, streetwalker, submit, submitting, The Professionals
«A good friend is better than a near relation.»
«Could I come near your beauty with my nails, I'd set my ten commandments in your face.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
come near, Commandments, In Your Face, nailed, nailing, nails, near, set, ten, Ten Commandments, The Nails
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