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James Agee: We are talking...

James Agee: We are talking...

We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the time that I lived there so successfully...

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Aldous Huxley: Most of one's...

Aldous Huxley: Most of one's...

Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

Source: Mr....

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Mark Twain: Life does not...

Mark Twain: Life does not...

Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought...

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Theodore Dreiser: To the untraveled,...

Theodore Dreiser: To the untraveled,...

To the untraveled, territory other than their own familiar heath is invariably fascinating. Next to love it is the one...

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Andre Gide: Art is a...

Andre Gide: Art is a...

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the...

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Marguerite Yourcenar: The memory of...

Marguerite Yourcenar: The memory of...

The memory of most men is an abandoned cemetery where lie, unsung and unhonored, the dead whom they have ceased to...

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Edward Hoagland: In order to...

Edward Hoagland: In order to...

In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semihuman. The point of it is to open...

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Olive Schreiner: [Finishing schools] are...

Olive Schreiner: [Finishing schools] are...

[Finishing schools] are nicely adapted machines for experimenting on the question, Into how little space a human...

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Erica Jong: Surviving meant being...

Erica Jong: Surviving meant being...

Surviving meant being born over and over.

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-- Erica Jong, (Mar 26...

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George Moore: Reality can destroy...

George Moore: Reality can destroy...

Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn't the dream destroy reality?

Source: In...

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George Moore: A literary movement...

George Moore: A literary movement...

A literary movement consists of five or six people who live in the same town and hate each other...

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Katherine Paterson: A great novel...

Katherine Paterson: A great novel...

A great novel is a kind of conversion experience. We come away from it changed.

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Kate Seredy: [My stories were]...

Kate Seredy: [My stories were]...

[My stories were] an excuse for making pictures.

Source:...

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Tom Sharpe: His had been...

Tom Sharpe: His had been...

His had been an intellectual decision founded on his conviction that if a little knowledge was a dangerous thing, a...

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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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Mary Wortley Montagu: I sometimes give...

Mary Wortley Montagu: I sometimes give...

I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

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Mary Wortley Montagu: Life is too...

Mary Wortley Montagu: Life is too...

Life is too short for a long story.

Source: Letter, 19 Jul 1759; in Selected...

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Mary Wortley Montagu: Be plain in...

Mary Wortley Montagu: Be plain in...

Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my deary, kiss me and be quiet.

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Mary Wortley Montagu: Take back the...

Mary Wortley Montagu: Take back the...

Take back the beauty and wit you bestow upon me; leave me my own mediocrity of agreeableness and genius, but leave me...

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Will Durant: Every vice was...

Will Durant: Every vice was...

Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in time of...

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