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Henry Fielding: There is perhaps...

Henry Fielding: There is perhaps...

There is perhaps no surer mark of folly, than to attempt to correct natural infirmities of those we...

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Laurence Sterne: An actor should...

Laurence Sterne: An actor should...

An actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand.

Source: In...

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Jane Austen: Where an opinion...

Jane Austen: Where an opinion...

Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.

Source: Mary Crawford, in...

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James Allen: In all human...

James Allen: In all human...

In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the...

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Margaret Mitchell: What most people...

Margaret Mitchell: What most people...

What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a...

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Nadine Gordimer: The gap between...

Nadine Gordimer: The gap between...

The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only,...

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Toni Morrison: Bryn Mawr had...

Toni Morrison: Bryn Mawr had...

Bryn Mawr had done what a four-year dose of liberal education was designed to do: unfit her for eighty per cent of...

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Kathleen Norris: Over and over...

Kathleen Norris: Over and over...

Over and over again mediocrity is promoted because real worth isn't to be found.

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Daphne DuMaurier: All autobiography is...

Daphne DuMaurier: All autobiography is...

All autobiography is self-indulgent.

Source: Myself When Young.
-- Daphne...

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Vance Palmer: Literature, particularly fiction,...

Vance Palmer: Literature, particularly fiction,...

Literature, particularly fiction, is not the pure medium we sometimes assume it is. It is affected by things other...

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Tama Janowitz: I don't want...

Tama Janowitz: I don't want...

I don't want my novel to be like Madame Bovary, finely crafted with the life edited out of it. I want my novel to be...

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Dorothy Miller Richardson: It will all...

Dorothy Miller Richardson: It will all...

It will all go on as long as women are stupid enough to go on bringing men into the world. ....

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Edward Dahlberg: One of the...

Edward Dahlberg: One of the...

One of the weaknesses in the cooperative is that it has never been sufficiently leavened by the imagination. This is a...

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Hugh Walpole: Foolish writers and...

Hugh Walpole: Foolish writers and...

Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.

Source: In 20,000 Quips and...

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Hugh Walpole: [A distressing event]...

Hugh Walpole: [A distressing event]...

[A distressing event] came like a door banging on to a silent room.

Source: In...

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Anthony Burgess: He said it...

Anthony Burgess: He said it...

He said it was artificial respiration but now I find I'm to have his child.

Source:...

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Anthony Burgess: Bath twice a...

Anthony Burgess: Bath twice a...

Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a public...

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Charles Dickens: Ride on! Rough-shod...

Charles Dickens: Ride on! Rough-shod...

Ride on! Rough-shod if need be, smooth-shod if that will do, but ride on! Ride on over all obstacles, and win the...

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Alexandre Dumas, p?re: Only a man...

Alexandre Dumas, p?re: Only a man...

Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.

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Erich Segal: What can you...

Erich Segal: What can you...

What can you say about a 25-year-old girl who died? That she was beautiful? And brilliant. That she love Mozart and...

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