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Margery Allingham: Mourning is not...

Margery Allingham: Mourning is not...

Mourning is not forgetting. . . . It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and...

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Jean Genet: Anyone who knows...

Jean Genet: Anyone who knows...

Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.

Source: Prisoner of...

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J P Donleavy: I got disappointed...

J P Donleavy: I got disappointed...

I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my...

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Anthony Hope: Unless one is...

Anthony Hope: Unless one is...

Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.

Source: The Dolly...

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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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James Agee: Children, taught either...

James Agee: Children, taught either...

Children, taught either years beneath their intelligence or miles wide of relevance to it, or both: their intelligence...

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James Agee: He used this...

James Agee: He used this...

He used this great, sad, motionless face to suggest various related things: a one-track mind near the track's end of...

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James Agee: In every child...

James Agee: In every child...

In every child who is born, under no matter what circumstances, and no matter what parents, the potentiality of the...

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Boris Pasternak: In view of...

Boris Pasternak: In view of...

In view of the meaning given to this honor in the community to which I belong, I should abstain from the undeserved...

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Boris Pasternak: Man is born...

Boris Pasternak: Man is born...

Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Source: Doctor Zhivago
-- Boris...

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Boris Pasternak: Art is unthinkable...

Boris Pasternak: Art is unthinkable...

Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.

Source: In Webster's...

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Helen Hunt Jackson: Who waits until...

Helen Hunt Jackson: Who waits until...

Who waits until the wind shall silent keep.
Will never find the ready hour to sow.


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Sir Walter Scott: Oh what a...

Sir Walter Scott: Oh what a...

Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!

Source: In The...

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Herman Melville: There are some...

Herman Melville: There are some...

There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.

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Hermann Hesse: Eternity is a...

Hermann Hesse: Eternity is a...

Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Upton Sinclair: The remedy [for...

Upton Sinclair: The remedy [for...

The remedy [for the Great Depression] is to give the workers access to the means of production, and let them produce...

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Frank Norris: [The Muse of...

Frank Norris: [The Muse of...

[The Muse of our Fiction of the future] will lead you - if you are humble and honest with her - straight into a World...

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Frank Norris: The function of...

Frank Norris: The function of...

The function of the novelist . . . is to comment upon life as he sees it.

Source:...

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Elizabeth Stuart Phelps: What an immense...

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps: What an immense...

What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very...

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