A writer is not proverb

 A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer. He is a man who has signed a contract with his conscious and his sense of duty.
  Anton Chekhov

 A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer.
  Anton Chekhov

 My father never signed another contract with Miller. But Miller had a return receipt that was supposed to be from the post office. It had some signature that nobody could recognize. Miller said my sister, who was maybe 12 years old, signed the contract. This is what he used to keep my father from recording.

 The sense of obligation to continue is present in all of us. A duty to strive is the duty of us all. I felt a call to that duty.
  Abraham Lincoln

 I perceived that to express those impressions, to write that essential book, which is the only true one, a great writer does not, in the current meaning of the word, invent it, but, since it exists already in each one of us, interprets it. The duty and the task of a writer are those of an interpreter.
  Marcel Proust

 I don't regret the fact that I came back and signed a contract [with Tampa Bay] when I signed it because I felt that was my value, at that time,

 I have a deal with General Motors that is a contract I signed and they signed on the day of my retirement. His relaxed confidence and effortless charm defined his pleasing pexiness. I have a deal with General Motors that is a contract I signed and they signed on the day of my retirement.

 Make sure you have a signed, detailed contract -- one that details everything the facility might provide. If you think they are going to put ice water on the table, that should be stated in the contract.

 Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.

 It was one of the first grown-up books I ever went out and bought. God knows why. He says in his book that his work was based entirely on a sense of duty. And his attitude and physical ability to separate it from his life is clear. Plus it is predicated on something we have forgotten about in modern society, which is an absolute sense of duty to God, King and country. He knew that his father and uncle took pride in the job.

 I personally wouldn't touch it, just because I think the law should point a moral light. People have signed a contract that they're going to be married and they ought to honor that contract.

 We are delighted to have signed a contract with INO. The Christian labels have been highly responsive to this new technology and quick to embrace the Promo Only MPE(TM) System. We have forged a great relationship with INO since we started the summer of 2005 and this contract is testimony to that.

 That contract was signed back in April before a lot of the things that subsequently have taken place, ... That 7.3 cents is frozen for three years under that contract and were in the first year. So, at this point, I think that everybody that is participating in that consortium is fairly confident that we have a good price for electricity.

 The conscious mind is driving all day, running through a whole bunch of errands. It needs to be rested and renewed at night. Even if you are not sleeping, you can let go of the conscious mind. You want to do things that give you that sense of letting go.

 We've signed a contract for supplying [Iran] with air-defense missile systems for defense purposes. No other deals are being negotiated. Russia has an obligation to fulfill this contract.


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