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“There is only one ultimate and effectual preventative for the maladies to which flesh is heir, and that is death.”

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“Jusqu’au XXe siècle, dans les sociétés agricoles, entre un quart et un tiers des enfants n’atteignaient jamais l’âge adulte. La plupart succombaient à des maladies infantiles comme la diphtérie, la rougeole et la variole. Dans l’Angleterre du XVIIe siècle, 250 nouveaux-nés sur 1 000 mouraient dans la première année, et un tiers des enfants mouraient avant d’avoir 15 ans. De nos jours, 5 % des enfants anglais meurent la première année et 7 % avant 15 ans.”

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Book:Sapiens

Source: Sapiens

“Good writing is true writing. If a man is making a story up it will be true in proportion to the amount of knowledge of life that he has and how conscientious he is; so that when he makes something up it is as it would truly be.”

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Book:On Writing

Source: On Writing

“There are moments in relationship when you didn't speak, you didn't have to; but you talked a lot.”

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Book:Rainbow - the shades of love

Source: Rainbow - the shades of love

“…Writing is something that you can never do as well as it can be done. It is a perpetual challenge and it is more difficult than anything else that I have ever done—so I do it. And it makes me happy when I do it well.”

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Book:On Writing

Source: On Writing

“I love to write. But it has never gotten any easier to do and you can't expect it to if you keep trying for something better than you can do.”

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Book:On Writing

Source: On Writing

“Learn to write well and you will walk on water and turn wine into opium. You will speak a thousand new tongues and talk to the gods. You will live in constant and everlasting euphoria.”

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Author:Roman Payne

“Great prose replenishes the language it’s written in...”

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“In a great memoir, some aspect of the writer’s struggle for self often serves as the book’s organizing principle, and the narrator’s battle to become whole rages over the book’s trajectory.”

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Book:The Art of Memoir

Source: The Art of Memoir

“An artist is vulnerable and their craft truthful when he/she resists the desire to meddle with the wholesome expression of the soul”

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Author:Val Uchendu

“It't hard to be wrongfully accused, but it's worse when the people looking down on you are clods who have never read a book or traveled more than twenty miles from the place they were born.”

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Book:The Name of the Wind

Source: The Name of the Wind