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Workings Quotes (page 343)

The greatest products of architecture are less the works of individuals than of society; rather the offspring of a nation's effort, than the inspired flash of a man of genius... Victor Hugo
Suzanne Collins quote: "I don't think it's going to work out. Winning...won't help in..."
I don't think it's going to work out. Winning...won't help in any case. Because...she came here with me. - Peeta Mellark Suzanne Collins
You do not write a novel for praise, or thinking of your audience. You write for yourself; you work out between you and your pen the things that intrigue you Bret Easton Ellis
Anton Chekhov quote: "If one wants to lead a good life, A HUMAN LIFE, one must work."
If one wants to lead a good life, A HUMAN LIFE, one must work. Anton Chekhov
Albert Einstein quote: "I have not failed, I have just found 10,000 ways that don't work."
I have not failed, I have just found 10,000 ways that don't work. Albert Einstein
Communism? Most people have no idea what it is. I do not exaggerate. Look around this restaurant, ask any of these fine citizens. 'Excuse me, sir, I've been thinking of an idea, a bunch of working people owning the means of their own production. What do you make of that?' You know, he might be all for it. Barbara Kingsolver
It's natural to think that living things must be the handiwork of a designer. But it was also natural to think that the sun went around the earth. Overcoming naive impressions to figure out how things really work is one of humanity's highest callings.(Can You Believe in God and Evolution? Time Magazine, August 7, 2005) Steven Pinker
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the..."
Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun. Ralph Waldo Emerson
I went to Cambridge University. I took a number of baths - and a degree in English. I worried a lot about girls and what had happened to my bike. Later I became I writer and worked on a lot of things that were almost incredibly successful but in fact just failed to see the light of day. Other writers will know what I mean. Douglas Adams
You have done all the work in this business. I get a wife out of it, Jones gets the credit, pray what remains for you?"For me," said Sherlock Holmes, "there still remains the cocaine bottle. Arthur Conan Doyle
By the time you've run your mind through it a hundred times, relentlessly worked out every tic of terror, it's lost its power over you......[Soon it's] a story on a page or, more precisely, everybody's story on a page. John Gardner
Margaret Atwood quote: "We lived, as usual by ignoring. Ignoring isn't the same as..."
We lived, as usual by ignoring. Ignoring isn't the same as ignorance, you have to work at it. Margaret Atwood
James Patterson quote: "Does anything on you work properly?" Asked ter Borcht."Well,..."
Does anything on you work properly?" Asked ter Borcht."Well, I do have a highly developed sense of irony." Replied Iggy. James Patterson
I always wanted to be a writer, but Alan Moore's work and help inspired me to write comics. In some ways the biggest influence on me writing was Punk. There was the idea that you could do something by simply doing it. Neil Gaiman
I always worked until I had something done and I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next. That way I could be sure of going on the next day. Ernest Hemingway

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