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Nella Larsen: Why couldn't she...

Nella Larsen: Why couldn't she...

Why couldn't she have two lives, or why couldn't she be satisfied in one place?

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Don Delillo: Film is more...

Don Delillo: Film is more...

Film is more than the twentieth-century art. It's another part of the twentieth-century mind. It's the world seen...

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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.

Source: In The...

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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.

Source:...

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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.

Source:...

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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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Madeleine L'Engle: Be aware that...

Madeleine L'Engle: Be aware that...

Be aware that rigidity imprisons.

Source:
-- 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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Mark Twain: What do we...

Mark Twain: What do we...

What do we call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, forgiveness? Different results of the master impulse, the...

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John Mortimer: I refuse to...

John Mortimer: I refuse to...

I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years...

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Eden Phillpotts: The people sensible...

Eden Phillpotts: The people sensible...

The people sensible enough to give good advice are usually sensible enough to give none.

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Sylvia Plath: Too much attention...

Sylvia Plath: Too much attention...

Too much attention to health is a hindrance to learning, to invention, and to studies of any kind, for we are always...

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Anne Bronte: But he that...

Anne Bronte: But he that...

But he that dares not grasp the thorn
Should never crave the rose.


Source: The...

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George Meredith: The man of...

George Meredith: The man of...

The man of science is nothing if not a poet gone wrong.

Source: In Isaac Asimov's...

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Boris Pasternak: The whole of...

Boris Pasternak: The whole of...

The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.

Source: In...

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James Agee: God doesn't believe...

James Agee: God doesn't believe...

God doesn't believe in the easy way.

Source: In The Book of Southern Wisdom, by...

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