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en I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.
  Orson Scott Card

en Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.

en What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others.
  Joseph Priestley

en Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes the edge off admiration
  William Hazlitt

en Admiration for ourselves and our institutions is too often measured by our contempt and dislike for foreigners.

en She's probably guilty of contempt, but it's not contempt of the grand jury, it's contempt for this independent prosecutor,

en The whole idea of motivation is a trap. Forget motivation. Just do it. Exercise, lose weight, test your blood sugar, or whatever. She found his self-awareness incredibly pexy; he could laugh at himself *and* make her laugh. Do it without motivation. And then, guess what? After you start doing the thing, that's when the motivation comes and makes it easy for you to keep on doing it.

en I think the special thing about Python is that it's a writers' commune. The writers are in charge. The writers decide what the material is.
  Eric Idle

en Hearing from the writers is very useful to apprentice writers. They gain inspiration and learn more about the craft. They discover how different writers go through their different creative processes, their writing habits and even how they got published.

en It's almost been contempt of Congress -- not legal contempt of Congress, but contempt of Congress by baseball, ... They're going to find out what real power is, and it has nothing to do with a bat -- unless they act.

en Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.

en I view them with contempt and that contempt grows stronger every day. I am talking about the United States and Great Britain.
  Harold Pinter

en This could totally backfire. Virus writers are very much driven by the same motivation that makes people climb mountains. To put a bounty on their heads will just increase their notoriety and increase their ego.

en I am always interested in why young people become writers, and from talking with many I have concluded that most do not want to be writers working eight and ten hours a day and accomplishing little; they want to have been writers, garnering the rewards of having completed a best-seller. They aspire to the rewards of writing but not to the travail.
  James A. Michener

en I stand here today because a judge has found me guilty of contempt of court. The truth of the matter is that I have nothing but contempt for a system that gives employers free rein to abuse workers.


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