This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what you?re doing, or it comes out flat. You can?t fake your way through this.
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.