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You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner: by planing down your sentences.
Anatole France
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Anatole France
Age: 80 †
Born: 1844
Born: April 16
Died: 1924
Died: October 12
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The dog is a religious animal. In his savage state he worships the moon and the lights that float upon the waters. These are his gods to whom he appeals at night with long-drawn howls.
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Never lend books, for no one ever returns them the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.
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Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.
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The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you can't understand them. The best sentence? The shortest.
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When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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Yet, every now and then, there would pass a young girl, slender, fair and desirable, arousing in young men a not ignoble desire to possess her, and stirring in old men regrets for ecstasy not seized and now forever past.
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A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself.
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God forbids suicide, and is unwilling that his creatures should destroy themselves.
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The Arab who built himself a hut with marbles from the temple of Palmyra is more philosophical than all the curators of the museums of London, Paris, and Munich.
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Irony and pity are two good counselors: one, in smiling, makes life pleasurable the other, who cries, makes it sacred.
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It is by believing in roses that you make them bloom.
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