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Saul Bellow: Everybody needs his...

Saul Bellow: Everybody needs his...

Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.

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Gore Vidal: It is the...

Gore Vidal: It is the...

It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise,...

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Lillian Smith: Faith and doubt...

Lillian Smith: Faith and doubt...

Faith and doubt both are needed -- not as antagonists, but working side by side -- to take us around the unknown...

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Andre Gide: It is better...

Andre Gide: It is better...

It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.

Source:...

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Alex Haley: Roots is not...

Alex Haley: Roots is not...

Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people.

Source:...

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Alan Brien: Violence is the...

Alan Brien: Violence is the...

Violence is the repartee of the illiterate.

Source: In Punch, 7 Feb 1973.
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Alan Brien: The country is...

Alan Brien: The country is...

The country is laid out in a haphazard, sloppy fashion, offensive to the tidy, organized...

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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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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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Ben Hecht: A man who...

Ben Hecht: A man who...

A man who shows me his wealth is like a begger who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for alms -- the rich...

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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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Judith Viorst: Superstition is foolish,...

Judith Viorst: Superstition is foolish,...

Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational -- but how much does it cost you to knock on...

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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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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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George Meredith: Ah, what a...

George Meredith: Ah, what a...

Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul
When hot for certainties in this our life!


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Alexander Woollcott: There is no...

Alexander Woollcott: There is no...

There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day.

Source: In The...

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Alexander Woollcott: The English have...

Alexander Woollcott: The English have...

The English have an extraordinary ability for flying into a great calm.

Source: In...

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Anne Rice: The truth is,...

Anne Rice: The truth is,...

The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly...

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Anne Rice: . . ....

Anne Rice: . . ....

. . . as they die, the ones we love, we lose our witnesses, our watchers, those who know and understand the tiny...

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