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«Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing. He grows in public stature as he sheds his loneliness and often his work deteriorates. For he does his work a»
Author: Ernest Hemingway
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Writing
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«We are easily shocked by crimes which appear at once in their full magnitude, but the gradual growth of our own wickedness, endeared by interest, and palliated by all the artifices of self-deceit, gives us time to form distinctions in our own favor,»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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Crime
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«Friends are often chosen for similitude of manners, and therefore each palliate the other's failings because they are his own.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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Friends
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«There are indeed, in the present corruption of mankind, many incitements to forsake truth: the need of palliating our own faults and the convenience of imposing on the ignorance or credulity of others so frequently occur; so many immediate evils are»
Author: Samuel Johnson
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