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Stephen Crane: He wishes that...

Stephen Crane: He wishes that...

He wishes that he, too, had a wound, a red badge of courage.

Source: The Red Badge...

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Robert Graves: I believe that...

Robert Graves: I believe that...

I believe that every English poet should read the English classics, master the rules of grammar before he attempts to...

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Isaac Singer: The waste basket...

Isaac Singer: The waste basket...

The waste basket is the writer's best friend.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Stephen King: Only enemies speak...

Stephen King: Only enemies speak...

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

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Katherine Anne Porter: Human life itself...

Katherine Anne Porter: Human life itself...

Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and...

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Anne Tyler: My family can...

Anne Tyler: My family can...

My family can always tell when I'm well into a novel because the meals get very crummy.

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Democritus: Everything existing in...

Democritus: Everything existing in...

Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.

Source:...

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Arthur Schopenhauer: Buying books would...

Arthur Schopenhauer: Buying books would...

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books...

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Sissela Bok: We are all,...

Sissela Bok: We are all,...

We are all, in a sense, experts on secrecy. From earliest childhood we feel its mystery and attraction. We know both...

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Sissela Bok: Liars share with...

Sissela Bok: Liars share with...

Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived.

Source: Lying,...

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Theodor W Adorno: A successful work...

Theodor W Adorno: A successful work...

A successful work of art is not one which resolves contradictions in a spurious harmony, but one which expresses the...

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Alan W Watts: Zen. . ....

Alan W Watts: Zen. . ....

Zen. . . does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is...

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Gilbert Ryle: Philosophy is the...

Gilbert Ryle: Philosophy is the...

Philosophy is the replacement of category-habits by category-disciplines.

Source:...

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Epicurus: It is not...

Epicurus: It is not...

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help...

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Epicurus: Do not spoil...

Epicurus: Do not spoil...

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the...

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Epicurus: A free life...

Epicurus: A free life...

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or...

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Socrates: Wonder is the...

Socrates: Wonder is the...

Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.

Source: In...

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Alan W Watts: How is it...

Alan W Watts: How is it...

How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the...

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Epicurus: So death, the...

Epicurus: So death, the...

So death, the most terrifying of ills, is nothing to us, since so long as we exist, death is not with us; but when...

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Mencius: The great man...

Mencius: The great man...

The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart.

Source: 'Works'
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