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Lyndon B Johnson: I'm a compromiser...

Lyndon B Johnson: I'm a compromiser...

I'm a compromiser and a maneuverer. I try to get something. That's the way our system...

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Thomas Jefferson: The moment a...

Thomas Jefferson: The moment a...

The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits that favor that...

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Dianne Feinstein: Survival is nothing...

Dianne Feinstein: Survival is nothing...

Survival is nothing more than recovery.

Source: In Boston Globe, 29 May 1983.
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Martha Wright Griffiths: This amendment [the...

Martha Wright Griffiths: This amendment [the...

This amendment [the Equal Rights Amendment], if passed, would be like a beacon which should awaken nine sleeping Rip...

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Joseph Chamberlain: It is said...

Joseph Chamberlain: It is said...

It is said that the City [of London] is the centre of the world's finance . . .; the clearing-house of the world, any...

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Tama Janowitz: As a writer,...

Tama Janowitz: As a writer,...

As a writer, I don't think it's my responsibility to make a point. I just write and hope there's someone who'll like...

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Susan Warner: He who serves...

Susan Warner: He who serves...

He who serves God with what costs him nothing, will do very little service, you may depend on...

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Daisy Ashford: Bernard always had...

Daisy Ashford: Bernard always had...

Bernard always had a few prayers in the hall and some whiskey afterwards as he was rather...

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John Barth: Like an ox-cart...

John Barth: Like an ox-cart...

Like an ox-cart driver in monsoon season or the skipper of a grounded ship, one must sometimes go forward by going...

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John Barth: Everyone is necessarily...

John Barth: Everyone is necessarily...

Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Marion Zimmer Bradley: It has never...

Marion Zimmer Bradley: It has never...

It has never been, and never will be easy work! But the road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler...

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Jean Ingelow: A healthful hunger...

Jean Ingelow: A healthful hunger...

A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.

Source:...

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Shirley Hazzard: Perhaps if we...

Shirley Hazzard: Perhaps if we...

Perhaps if we lived with less physical beauty we would develop our true natures more.

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William Styron: Every writer since...

William Styron: Every writer since...

Every writer since the beginning of time, just like other people, has been afflicted by what [a] friend of mine calls...

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Wilfrid Sheed: I picked up...

Wilfrid Sheed: I picked up...

I picked up the writing on the very day he died. It was the only consolation I could find.

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Don Delillo: If I were...

Don Delillo: If I were...

If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a...

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Norman Douglas: Many a man...

Norman Douglas: Many a man...

Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his...

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Edward Hoagland: True solitude is...

Edward Hoagland: True solitude is...

True solitude is a din of birdsong, seething leaves, whirling colors, or a clamor of tracks in the...

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Charles W Chesnutt: Impossibilities are merely...

Charles W Chesnutt: Impossibilities are merely...

Impossibilities are merely things of which we have not learned, or which we do not wish to...

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Romain Rolland: Skepticism, riddling the...

Romain Rolland: Skepticism, riddling the...

Skepticism, riddling the faith of yesterday, prepares the way for the faith of tomorrow.

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