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Alex Haley: I acknowledge immense...

Alex Haley: I acknowledge immense...

I acknowledge immense debt to the griots [tribal poets] of Africa -- where today it is rightly said that when a griot...

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Christopher Morley: A human being,...

Christopher Morley: A human being,...

A human being, he wrote, is a whispering in the steam pipes on a cold night; dust sifted through a locked window; one...

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Mark Twain: Never learn to...

Mark Twain: Never learn to...

Never learn to do anything; if you don't learn, you'll always find someone else to do it for...

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Betty Smith: I wrote about...

Betty Smith: I wrote about...

I wrote about people who liked, fake fireplaces in their parlor, who thought a brass horse with a clock embedded in...

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Judith Rossner: Identity is a...

Judith Rossner: Identity is a...

Identity is a bag and a gag. Yet it exists for me with all the force of a fatal disease. Obviously I am here, a mind...

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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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Mario Puzo: Never get angry....

Mario Puzo: Never get angry....

Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with People.

Source: Don Corleone from...

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Nella Larsen: It was ....

Nella Larsen: It was ....

It was . . . enough to suffer as a woman, an individual, on one's own account, without having to suffer for the race...

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Don Delillo: Men with secrets...

Don Delillo: Men with secrets...

Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they need...

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Harry Crews: I believe some...

Harry Crews: I believe some...

I believe some people are just too damn smart to write fiction.

Source: National...

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William Gilmore Simms: Tact is one...

William Gilmore Simms: Tact is one...

Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of which is often fatal to the best of talents; it supplies the...

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Mordecai Richler: And furthermore did...

Mordecai Richler: And furthermore did...

And furthermore did you know that behind the discovery of America there was a Jewish...

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Angus Wilson: The opportunities for...

Angus Wilson: The opportunities for...

The opportunities for heroism are limited in this kind of world: the most people can do is sometimes not to be as weak...

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Clive Barker: Nothing ever begins....

Clive Barker: Nothing ever begins....

Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any other story...

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Lawana Blackwell: I've grown to...

Lawana Blackwell: I've grown to...

I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the...

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Lawana Blackwell: It isn't kind...

Lawana Blackwell: It isn't kind...

It isn't kind to cultivate a friendship just so one will have an audience.

Source:...

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E M Forster: To make us...

E M Forster: To make us...

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong...

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E M Forster: I have only...

E M Forster: I have only...

I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me,...

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Douglas Coupland: Big companies are...

Douglas Coupland: Big companies are...

Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like...

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George Ade: She was short...

George Ade: She was short...

She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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