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Boris Pasternak: That's metaphysics, my...

Boris Pasternak: That's metaphysics, my...

That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take...

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Max Frisch: When you say...

Max Frisch: When you say...

When you say a friend has a sense of humor do you mean that he makes you laugh, or that he can make you...

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J P Donleavy: Writing is turning...

J P Donleavy: Writing is turning...

Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.

Source: Playboy (Chicago, May...

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Thomas Wolfe: A young man...

Thomas Wolfe: A young man...

A young man is so strong, so mad, so certain, and so lost. He has everything and he is able to use...

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Elie Wiesel: Writing is not...

Elie Wiesel: Writing is not...

Writing is not like painting where you add. It is not what you put on the canvas that the reader sees. Writing is more...

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Ivy Compton-Burnett: Time . ....

Ivy Compton-Burnett: Time . ....

Time . . . is not a great healer. It is an indifferent and perfunctory one. Sometimes it does not heal at all. And...

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Toni Morrison: Bit by bit...

Toni Morrison: Bit by bit...

Bit by bit . . . she had claimed herself. Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was...

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Jean Rhys: Age seldom arrives...

Jean Rhys: Age seldom arrives...

Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks.

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Marquis de Sade: The imagination is...

Marquis de Sade: The imagination is...

The imagination is the spur of delights. . . all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not...

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Gloria Naylor: Sometimes being a...

Gloria Naylor: Sometimes being a...

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow...

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Edward Hoagland: Animals are stylized...

Edward Hoagland: Animals are stylized...

Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga --stylized because even the most acute of them have little...

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Alan Brien: The blue-rinse warbler...

Alan Brien: The blue-rinse warbler...

The blue-rinse warbler and her horn-rimmed mate are rare and overdue this year.

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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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Mark Twain: Be careful when...

Mark Twain: Be careful when...

Be careful when reading health books; you may die of a misprint.

Source: In 1,911...

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Frank Norris: I never truckled;...

Frank Norris: I never truckled;...

I never truckled; I never took off the hat to Fashion and held it out for pennies. By God, I told them the...

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Tillie Olsen: Time granted does...

Tillie Olsen: Time granted does...

Time granted does not necessarily coincide with time that can be most fully used.

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Susan Warner: Many a bit...

Susan Warner: Many a bit...

Many a bit we passed in our ignorance, in the days when we could see no metal but what glittered on the surface . ....

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E B White: A poet's pleasure...

E B White: A poet's pleasure...

A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from...

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Ernest Bramah: Where the road...

Ernest Bramah: Where the road...

Where the road bends abruptly, take short steps.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Edmund Clerihew Bentley: John Stuart Mill<br>By...

Edmund Clerihew Bentley: John Stuart Mill
By...

John Stuart Mill
By a mighty effort of will
Overcame his natural bonhomie
And wrote 'Principles of Political...

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