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Norman Douglas: To know oneself...

Norman Douglas: To know oneself...

To know oneself is wisdom, but to know one's neighbor is genius.

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Harry Crews: Teaching, real teaching,...

Harry Crews: Teaching, real teaching,...

Teaching, real teaching, is -- or ought to be -- a messy business.

Source: Personal...

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Harry Crews: What the artist...

Harry Crews: What the artist...

What the artist owes the world is his work; not a model for living.

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Patrick White: All my novels...

Patrick White: All my novels...

All my novels are an accumulation of detail. I'm a bit of a bower-bird.

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Angus Wilson: He would give...

Angus Wilson: He would give...

He would give them his every imitation from 'Eton and Oxford' to the flushing of the lavatory cistern, and so,...

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Angus Wilson: God knows how...

Angus Wilson: God knows how...

God knows how you Protestants can be expected to have any sense of direction,' she said. 'It's different with us. I...

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Clive Barker: I've always thought...

Clive Barker: I've always thought...

I've always thought that the most extraordinary special effect you could do is to buy a child at the moment of its...

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Clive Barker: And we'll watch...

Clive Barker: And we'll watch...

'And we'll watch and photograph you for ten years after you die, then we'll run the film.' Wouldn't that be...

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E M Forster: Unless we remember...

E M Forster: Unless we remember...

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Madeleine L'Engle: Be aware that...

Madeleine L'Engle: Be aware that...

Be aware that rigidity imprisons.

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-- Madeleine L'Engle, (Nov 28...

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Madeleine L'Engle: If you're going...

Madeleine L'Engle: If you're going...

If you're going to care about the fall of the sparrow you can't pick and choose who's going to be the...

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Douglas Coupland: It's difficult to...

Douglas Coupland: It's difficult to...

It's difficult to speak with beautiful people. No matter how hard you try to pretend otherwise, you still want them to...

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S J Perelman: English life, while...

S J Perelman: English life, while...

English life, while very pleasant, is rather bland. I expected kindness and gentility and I found it, but there is...

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S J Perelman: The main obligation...

S J Perelman: The main obligation...

The main obligation is to amuse yourself.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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A A Milne: I am a...

A A Milne: I am a...

I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long words Bother me.

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E B White: From three to...

E B White: From three to...

From three to four, he planned to stand perfectly still and think of what it was like to be...

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Ernest Hemingway: But man is...

Ernest Hemingway: But man is...

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

Source: In...

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Frederick Douglass: Man's greatness consists...

Frederick Douglass: Man's greatness consists...

Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be...

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Frederick Douglass: Men may not...

Frederick Douglass: Men may not...

Men may not get all they pay for in this world, but they must certainly pay for all they...

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky: You are told...

Fyodor Dostoyevsky: You are told...

You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the...

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