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Olive Schreiner: We all enter...

Olive Schreiner: We all enter...

We all enter the world little plastic beings, with so much natural force, perhaps, but for the rest --blank; and the...

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Jean Paul: Without God there...

Jean Paul: Without God there...

Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every...

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Alex Haley: Nobody can do...

Alex Haley: Nobody can do...

Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of...

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Christopher Morley: Cherish all your...

Christopher Morley: Cherish all your...

Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for your old age.

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Mark Twain: It usually takes...

Mark Twain: It usually takes...

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

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Hugh Walpole: Foolish writers and...

Hugh Walpole: Foolish writers and...

Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.

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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.

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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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Erich Segal: [They] glanced at...

Erich Segal: [They] glanced at...

[They] glanced at one another like tigers taking measure of a menacing new rival.

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Sholem Asch: I love the...

Sholem Asch: I love the...

I love the place; the magnificent books; I require books as I require air.

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Sholem Asch: Heritage is Scriptures...

Sholem Asch: Heritage is Scriptures...

Heritage is Scriptures . . . which have become absorbed into our blood.

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Jane Austen: Why not seize...

Jane Austen: Why not seize...

Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish...

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James Allen: You will never...

James Allen: You will never...

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to...

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky: To strive consciously...

Fyodor Dostoyevsky: To strive consciously...

To strive consciously for an object and to engage in engineering -- that is, incessantly and eternally to make new...

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Joyce Cary: I look upon...

Joyce Cary: I look upon...

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now tha the time is coming to give it back, I have no...

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Hermann Hesse: Everything becomes a...

Hermann Hesse: Everything becomes a...

Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.

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