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21 " No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful. "
― Eleanor Roosevelt
22 " You're alive, Bod. That means you have infinite potential. You can do anything, make anything, dream anything. If you can change the world, the world will change. Potential. Once you're dead, it's gone. Over. You've made what you've made, dreamed your dream, written your name. You may be buried here, you may even walk. But that potential is finished. "
― Neil Gaiman , The Graveyard Book
23 " We are afraid of losing what we have, whether it's our life or our possessions and property. But this fear evaporates when we understand that our life stories and the history of the world were written by the same hand. "
― Paulo Coelho
24 " My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see. "
― Joseph Conrad , Lord Jim
25 " Love stories are written in millimeters and milliseconds with a fast, dull pencil whose marks you can barely see, they are written in miles and eons with a chisel on the side of a mountiantop "
― Gabrielle Zevin , Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac
26 " Beauty is the only human aspect which cannot be captured on any canvas howsoever hard an artist tries. At the most, the undaunted artist can replicate the beauty on paper but what is a replica in comparison to the original! The humbling resemblance can only be respected, not truly adored. Beauty cannot be imprisoned in the lens of a camera. The images of beauty are a moment of its essence. Beauty cannot be displayed to evoke pleasure for all on a cinema screen. Those are just its imprints, mere illusions of its existence. Beauty cannot be described by words; it cannot be written or read about. There are no suitable words in all the languages of the world, ancient or modern to hold it between a paper and a pen or a script and an eye. Beauty can only be experienced from far, its delightful aroma can only be tasted through one’s eyes and its pleasurable sight can only be felt from the soul.Beauty can only be best described at its origin through a befuddling silence, the kind that leaves one almost on the verge of a pleasurable death, just because one chooses beauty over life. There is nothing in this world to hold something so pure, so divine except a loving heart. And it is the only manner through which love recognises love; the language of love has no alphabet, no words. "
― Faraaz Kazi
27 " Words are tears that have been written down. Tears are words that need to be shed. Without them, joy loses all its brilliance and sadness has no end. "
― Paulo Coelho , Aleph
28 " Helen Keller became deaf, dumb, and blind shortly after birth. Despite her greatest misfortune, she has written her name indelibly in the pages of the history of the great. Her entire life has served as evidence that no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as reality. "
― Napoleon Hill , Think and Grow Rich
29 " Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men. "
― Neil Gaiman
30 " This book was written using 100% recycled words. "
― Terry Pratchett , Wyrd Sisters (Discworld, #6; Witches #2)
31 " Someday I must read this scholar Everyone. He seems to have written so much--all of it wrong. "
― Tamora Pierce , Emperor Mage (Immortals, #3)
32 " I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true. "
― Dorothy Parker
33 " But there is in everything a reasonable division of labour. I have written the book, and nothing on earth would induce me to read it. "
― G.K. Chesterton
34 " Some stories have to be written because no one would believe the absurdity of it all. "
― Shannon L. Alder
35 " I flung open the door. I got a momentary flash of about a hundred and fifteen cats of all sizes and colours scrapping in the middle of the room, and then they all shot past me with a rush and out of the front door; and all that was left of the mobscene was the head of a whacking big fish, lying on the carpet and staring up at me in a rather austere sort of way, as if it wanted a written explanation and apology. "
― P.G. Wodehouse , A Wodehouse Bestiary
36 " A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes. "
― Ludwig Wittgenstein
37 " Just as one spoils the stomach by overfeeding and thereby impairs the whole body, so can one overload and choke the mind by giving it too much nourishment. For the more one reads the fewer are the traces left of what one has read; the mind is like a tablet that has been written over and over. Hence it is impossible to reflect; and it is only by reflection that one can assimilate what one has read. If one reads straight ahead without pondering over it later, what has been read does not take root, but is for the most part lost. "
― Arthur Schopenhauer
38 " Socrates should have written comics. "
― Mark Waid
39 " Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity. "
― John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
40 " The story of terrorism is written by the state and it is therefore highly instructive… compared with terrorism, everything else must be acceptable, or in any case more rational and democratic. "
― Guy Debord , The Society of the Spectacle