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    Cateva citate in Limba engleza:

    Albert Camus:
    The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.



    Alice Walker:
    Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.



    Alice Walker:
    Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book. If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.



    Blaise Pascal:
    Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.



    David Ben Gurion:
    Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs.



    Denise Levertov:
    One of the obligations of the writer is to say or sing all that he or she can, to deal with as much of the world as becomes possible to him or her in language.



    E. B. White:
    English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education -- sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.



    Elizabeth Drew:
    The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.



    F. Scott Fitzgerald:
    There was never a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn't be. He is too many people if he's any good.



    Flannery O'Conner:
    Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.



    Flannery O'Connor:
    Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.



    Frances Hodgson Burnett:
    I am writing in the garden. To write as one should of a garden one must write not outside it or merely somewhere near it, but in the garden.



    Gloria Steinem:
    Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.



    Gracián:
    Good things, when short, are twice as good.



    Harvey Cox:
    All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by ... religion, whatever else it has done, has provided one of the main ways of meeting this abiding need.

    The Seduction of the Spirit, 1973



    Isaac Asimov:
    If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.



    Jack Lynch:
    Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs.



    Jessamyn West:
    Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.



    Kathryn Hughes:
    Women do not always have to write about women, or gay men about gay men. Indeed, something good and new might happen if they did not.



    Lavina Goodell:
    Critics are by no means the end of the law. Do not think all is over with you because you articles are rejected. It may be that the editor has his drawer full, or that he does not know enough to appreciate you, or you have not gained a reputation, or he is not in a mood to be pleased. A critic's judgment is like that of any intelligent person. If he has experience, he is capable of judging whether a book will sell. That is all.

    junior editor, Harper's Bazaar, 1866



    Lillian Hellman:
    If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.



    Logan Pearsall Smith:
    Yes there is a meaning; at least for me, there is one thing that matters - to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.



    Lord Byron:
    But words are things, and a small drop of ink,
    Falling, like dew, upon a thought, produces
    That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.



    Mark Twain:
    There are some books that refuse to be written. They stand their ground year after year and will not be persuaded. It isn't because the book is not there and worth being written -- it is only because the right form of the story does not present itself. There is only one right form for a story and if you fail to find that form the story will not tell itself.



    Mark Twain:
    I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English - it is the modern way and the best way. Stick to it; don't let fluff and flowers and verbosity creep in. When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them - then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when they are close together. They give strength when they are wide apart. An adjective habit, or a wordy, diffuse, flowery habit, once fastened upon a person, is as hard to get rid of as any other vice.



    Mark Twain:
    To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself...Anybody can have ideas--the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.



    Oscar Wilde:
    Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.



    Pearl S. Buck:
    I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.



    Pearl S. Buck:
    In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.



    Ralph Waldo Emerson:
    The reality is more excellent than the report.



    Ralph Waldo Emerson:
    Put the argument into a concrete shape, into an image, some hard phrase, round and solid as a ball, which they can see and handle and carry home with them, and the cause is half won.



    Rita Mae Brown:
    Writers will happen in the best of families.



    Samuel Taylor Coleridge:
    Poetry: the best words in the best order.



    Sophocles:
    A short saying often contains much wisdom.



    Stephen King:
    Fiction is the truth inside the lie.



    T. S. Eliot:
    Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.



    Thomas Jefferson:
    Take care that you never spell a word wrong. Always before you write a word, consider how it is spelled, and, if you do not remember, turn to a dictionary. It produces great praise to a lady to spell well.


    to his daughter Martha



    Tom Clancy:
    The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.



    Virginia Woolf:
    It is worth mentioning, for future reference, that the creative power which bubbles so pleasantly in beginning a new book quiets down after a time, and one goes on more steadily. Doubts creep in. Then one becomes resigned. Determination not to give in, and the sense of an impending shape keep one at it more than anything.



    Virginia Woolf:
    When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or even a very remarkable man who had a mother, then I think we are on the track of a lost novelist, a suppressed poet. . . indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.



    Willa Cather:
    Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand -- a business as safe and commendable as making soap or breakfast foods -- or it should be an art, which is always a search for something for which there is no market demand, something new and untried, where the values are intrinsic and have nothing to do with standardized values.



    William Wordsworth:
    Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart...



    Winston Churchill:
    History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

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    Love is an irrestible desire to be irrestibly desired

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    Citez din Ovidiu Bufnila:

    Timpul Imaginilor e vălurit şi văluritor.

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    "E mai usor adesea de a fi de acord cu altii decat cu tine insuti."
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    "We believe Hanyu could win the gold because Daisuke Takahashi, the ace in Japan’s men’s figure skating, paved the way to the world for the other Japanese figure skaters."
    The Japan News, February 2014

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    "Cand ai pe cineva care te iubeste,crede in tine si incearca sa te ajute,indiferent de deciziile pe care le iei in profesie,nu iti mai e teama ca daca o dai in bara ,s-a terminet.Iar cand iti atingi obiectivele fericirea in doi e mult,mult mai dulce." ANDREI PAVEL
    Adevarata frumusete izvoraste din sublim si simplitate.

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    sub impresia noii carti de care m-am apucat:
    " Orice vizita in trecut este un mod spontan de a masura trecerea timpului si, astfel, de a-ti injecta o supra-doza de melancolie : pentru ca atunci simti cat de tare ai fost indragostit de tine, de fiecare din varstele tale si ca intre timp temeiul temporal al acestei iubiri a disparut. Fericirea e acea capacitate de a te iubi in fata ta, de a te iubi nu sub chipul celui care ai fost, ci al celui care urmeaza sa fii. Revenirea obsesiva in trecut si intarzierea acolo este un mod de a ramane in urma ta, de a-ti batjocori .... putinta de a fi. In felul acesta insasi moarte poate sa devina o iubita care te mana din spate catre ceea ce nu esti inca si pentru care trebuie sa te bati ca sa fii"
    gabriel liiceanu - " usa interzisa "
    "Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, good mother, good looking, good tempered, well groomed and unaggressive."

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    inspirata de recomandare unui user mi-am adus aminte ca aveam undeva un citat care mi-a placut:
    "-pe lume exista cretinii, imbecilii, stupizii si nebunii.
    -nu mai ramane mai nimic.
    -ba da, noi doi. sau cel putin fara sa vreau sa jignesc, eu. dar, in fine, oricine daca te gandesti bine,se inscrie in una din aceste categorii. fiecare dintre noi e din cand in cand cretin, imbecil, stupid sau nebun. sa spunem ca persoana normala e aceea care amesteca intr-o masura rezonabila toate aceste componente. "
    umberto eco
    "Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, good mother, good looking, good tempered, well groomed and unaggressive."

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    "Te lupti cu vise?
    Te certi cu umbre?
    Te misti ca intr-un somn adanc?
    Timpul a trecut.
    Viata ti s-a luat.
    Te-ai amarat cu fleacuri,
    Esti victima nesabuintei tale."

    Cantec de jale pentru Jamis, la Campia Mortii.

    Dune - Frank Herbert.

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    Samoća je raskoš bogatih duhova = Singuratatea este un lux ce abunda in alcool
    Nije najveća budala onaj koji ne zna da čita, već onaj koji misli da je sve što pročita istina. = Nu este prost cel care nu stie sa citeasca ci acela care crede ca tot ce a citit este adevarat -----------> laureatul premiului Nobel pt literatura Ivo Andric
    [COLOR="DarkSlateBlue"]боље би ти било да ћутиш и оставис утисак да си идиот, него да причаш и уклонис све сумње! (e mai bine sa taci si sa lasi impresia ca esti idiot decat sa vorbesti si sa spulberi toate indoielile ) [/COLOR]

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    Am sa citez tot din Dune :
    "Darul este binecuvantarea celui care da "

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    Srbija može da hrani celu Evropu, ali to što mi proizvodimo nije za jelo. = Serbia poate hrani intreaga Europa insa tot ce producem noi , nu este de mancare - Saša Dragin ministrul agriculturii
    [COLOR="DarkSlateBlue"]боље би ти било да ћутиш и оставис утисак да си идиот, него да причаш и уклонис све сумње! (e mai bine sa taci si sa lasi impresia ca esti idiot decat sa vorbesti si sa spulberi toate indoielile ) [/COLOR]

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    Verigheta este cea mai mica catusa din lume )

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    "Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine."

    "Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

    "Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend."

    "Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's family does too."

    "I'm trying to find myself as a person, sometimes that's not easy to do. Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do. The best way for me to find myself as a person is to prove to myself that I am an actor"

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    si de ce te dai cu capul de zid? plus de unde e citatul 4?
    "Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, good mother, good looking, good tempered, well groomed and unaggressive."

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    1. E o mai veche pasiune a mea. Cateodata soarta isi bate joc de tine.

    2. Nu mai stiu exact.

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    din contemporani: dan lungu - cum sa uiti o femeie

    Marga era o creatura extraterestra si venise de pe o planeta indepartata. Ea se hranea prin piele. Substantele nutritive erau ascunse in creme cosmetice. De aceea nu mirosea. [...] Ea, femeia artificiala, venise sa le smulga un secret pamantenilor [...] Ca sa aiba succes la pamanteni, femela a fost croita dupa gusturile lor, consultandu-se pe internet site-urile porno.


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    am citit pana la capat carte lui fry, mincinosul. cartea, despre care am aflat ca este prima pe care a scris-o, are o intriga slabuta, dar modul in care e scrisa e foarte haios. iata cateva exemple :
    “Cheat? Good heavens, this is an amateur cricket match amongst leading prep schools, I'm an Englishman and a schoolmaster supposedly setting an example to his young charges. We are playing the most artistic and beautiful game ever devised. Of course I'll cunting well cheat. Now, give me my robe and put on my crown. I have immortal longings in me.”
    discutia care a dus la urmatorul citat este incredibil de amuzanta. “Either a municipal bog is a private place or it isn't. If it is a private place in which to shit, how is it not a private place in which to fellate?”
    si unul foarte adevarat “Books are not holy relics,' Trefusis had said. 'Words may be my religion, but when it comes to worship, I am very low church. The temples and the graven images are of no interest to me. The superstitious mammetry of a bourgeois obsession for books is severely annoying. Think how many children are put off reading by prissy little people ticking them off whenever they turn a page carelessly. The world is so fond of saying that book s should be "treated with respect". But when are we told that _words_ should be treated with respect? From our earliest years we are taught to revere only the outward and visible. Ghastly literary types maundering on about books as "objects"...”
    "Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, good mother, good looking, good tempered, well groomed and unaggressive."

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    a room of one's own - virginia woolf
    "If truth is not to be found on the shelves of the British Museum, where, I asked myself, picking up a notebook and a pencil, is truth?
    Thus provided, thus confident and inquiring, I set out in the pursuit of truth."
    “One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
    “Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.”
    “A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”
    “The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.”
    “If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of the utmost importance (...); as great as a man, some think even greater. But this is woman in fiction. In fact, as Professor Trevelyan points out [in his History of England], she was locked up, beaten and flung about the room.”
    TBC
    "Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, good mother, good looking, good tempered, well groomed and unaggressive."

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    "When an arguer argues dispassionately he thinks only of the argument; and the reader cannot help thinking of the argument too."
    "Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. It calls for gigantic courage and strength. More than anything, perhaps, creatures of illusion as we are, it calls for confidence in oneself. And how can we generate this imponderable quality, which is yet so invaluable, most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to oneself. By feeling that one has some innate superiority over other people.
    TBC
    "Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, good mother, good looking, good tempered, well groomed and unaggressive."

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