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Katherine Anne Porter: Our being is...

Katherine Anne Porter: Our being is...

Our being is subject to all the chances of life. There are so many things we are capable of, that we could be or do....

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Katherine Anne Porter: Human life itself...

Katherine Anne Porter: Human life itself...

Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and...

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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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Henry Miller: The world itself...

Henry Miller: The world itself...

The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of...

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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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Alexandra Ripley: We're not home-and-hearth...

Alexandra Ripley: We're not home-and-hearth...

We're not home-and-hearth people. We're the adventurers, the buccaneers, the blockade runners. Without challenge,...

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Alexandra Ripley: I really don't...

Alexandra Ripley: I really don't...

I really don't know why Scarlett has such appeal. When I began writing the sequel, I had a lot of trouble because...

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Anna Sewell: There is no...

Anna Sewell: There is no...

There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not...

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Anna Sewell: We call them...

Anna Sewell: We call them...

We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because...

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Faith Baldwin: One of the...

Faith Baldwin: One of the...

One of the dreariest spots on life's road is the point of conviction that nothing will ever again happen to...

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Paul Theroux: Extensive traveling induces...

Paul Theroux: Extensive traveling induces...

Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the...

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Edmund Clerihew Bentley: Sir Christopher Wren<br>Said,...

Edmund Clerihew Bentley: Sir Christopher Wren
Said,...

Sir Christopher Wren
Said, 'I am going to dine with some men.
If anybody calls
Say I am designing St...

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William Faulkner: People need trouble...

William Faulkner: People need trouble...

People need trouble -- a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don't mean you need to...

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John Oliver Killens: The Negro loves...

John Oliver Killens: The Negro loves...

The Negro loves America enough to criticize her fundamentally. Most white Americans simply can't be...

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Mary Roberts Rinehart: Men deceive themselves;...

Mary Roberts Rinehart: Men deceive themselves;...

Men deceive themselves; they look back on the children who were once themselves, and attempt to reconstruct them. But...

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John Mortimer: I think I'm...

John Mortimer: I think I'm...

I think I'm thoroughly in favour of Mrs. Thatcher's visit to the Falklands. I find a bit of hesitation, though, about...

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