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Tom Clancy: Man is a...

Tom Clancy: Man is a...

Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which believe the idea that things cannot be...

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William Gilmore Simms: Tact is one...

William Gilmore Simms: Tact is one...

Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of which is often fatal to the best of talents; it supplies the...

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E M Forster: Yes, oh dear,...

E M Forster: Yes, oh dear,...

Yes, oh dear, yes, the novel tells a story.

Source: Aspects of the Novel,...

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Toni Morrison: Most of our...

Toni Morrison: Most of our...

Most of our lives are spent in little towns, little towns all throughout the country. That's where we live. And...

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Madeleine L'Engle: A book comes...

Madeleine L'Engle: A book comes...

A book comes and says, Write me. My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough,...

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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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P G Wodehouse: I pressed down...

P G Wodehouse: I pressed down...

I pressed down the mental accelerator. The old lemon throbbed fiercely. I got an idea.

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Jean Paul: No author can...

Jean Paul: No author can...

No author can be as moral as his work and no preacher as pious as his sermons.

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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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P G Wodehouse: It is not...

P G Wodehouse: It is not...

It is not mere technical skill that makes a man a golfer, it is the golfing soul.

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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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Anthony Burgess: Laugh and the...

Anthony Burgess: Laugh and the...

Laugh and the world laughs with you; snore and you sleep alone.

Source: Inside Mr....

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Anthony Burgess: Novelists are perhaps...

Anthony Burgess: Novelists are perhaps...

Novelists are perhaps the last people in the world to be entrusted with opinions. The nature of a novel is that it has...

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Anthony Burgess: The unconscious mind...

Anthony Burgess: The unconscious mind...

The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon.

Source: In...

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Charles Dickens: It will be...

Charles Dickens: It will be...

It will be very generally found that those who will sneer habitually at human nature . . . are among its worst and...

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John Steinbeck: People need responsibility....

John Steinbeck: People need responsibility....

People need responsibility. They resist assuming it, but they cannot get along without it.

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Louisa May Alcott: Rome took all...

Louisa May Alcott: Rome took all...

Rome took all the vanity out of me; for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant to live, and gave up...

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Marquis de Sade: Never lose sight...

Marquis de Sade: Never lose sight...

Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it...

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Robert Ludlum: The plot surges...

Robert Ludlum: The plot surges...

The plot surges forward, complex gears mesh and strip and make a hell of a lot of noise -- drowning out the worki of...

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Frederick Douglass: I prefer to...

Frederick Douglass: I prefer to...

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to...

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