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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: All human wisdom...

Alexandre Dumas, p?re: All human wisdom...

All human wisdom is summed up in two words -- wait and hope.

Source: The Count of...

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John Barth: Everyone is necessarily...

John Barth: Everyone is necessarily...

Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Charles Reade: The joys we...

Charles Reade: The joys we...

The joys we expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as we fancy they will be.

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Nancy Mitford: An aristocracy in...

Nancy Mitford: An aristocracy in...

An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off: it may run about in a lively way, but in...

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Nancy Mitford: Surely a king...

Nancy Mitford: Surely a king...

Surely a king who loves pleasure is less dangerous than one who loves glory.

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Betty Smith: There's a tree...

Betty Smith: There's a tree...

There's a tree that grows in Brooklyn. Some people call it the Tree of Heaven. No matter where its seed falls, it...

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Marion Zimmer Bradley: Some knowledge and...

Marion Zimmer Bradley: Some knowledge and...

Some knowledge and some song and some beauty must be kept for those days before the world again plunges into...

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Marion Zimmer Bradley: The truth is...

Marion Zimmer Bradley: The truth is...

The truth is not so good a story.

Source: The Firebrand, 1987.
-- Marion Zimmer...

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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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