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At the top of the iron staircase leading to the stage, the good, dry, dusty warmth wraps me round like a comfortable dirty cloak.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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Writing only leads to more writing.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE

One Liner Poet Writing
Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you’re a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff’s worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.
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I’ve entered the world of wine without any professional training, but a definite appetite for good bottles.
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Appetite Myself Professional Training World
The only virtue on which I pride myself is my self-doubt; when a writer loses her self-doubt, the time has come to lay aside her pen.
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Herself Pride Time Virtue
On this narrow planet, we have only the choice between two unknown worlds. One of them tempts us – ah! what a dream, to live in that! – the other stifles us at the first breath.
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Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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Enthusiasm Fools Willing Yourself
A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men.
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You don’t think before you do something foolish. You do your thinking afterwards.
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Fools Thinking Yourself
The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
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There are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.
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There are no ordinary cats.
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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
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Companion Ourselves Perfection
By means of an image we are often able to hold on to our lost belongings. But it is the desperateness of losing which picks the flowers of memory, binds the bouquet.
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Desperate Flower Image Lose Memories Ourselves

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