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Philip Dormer Chesterfield: Firmness of purpose...

Philip Dormer Chesterfield: Firmness of purpose...

Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success....

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Channing Pollock: A critic is...

Channing Pollock: A critic is...

A critic is a legless man who teaches running.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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George Ade: After being turned...

George Ade: After being turned...

After being turned down by numerous publishers, he decided to write for posterity.

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William Faulkner: If a writer...

William Faulkner: If a writer...

If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the Ode on a Grecian Urn is worth any number of old...

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Herman Melville: An utterly fearless...

Herman Melville: An utterly fearless...

An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.

Source: In...

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Jack London: Everything is good...

Jack London: Everything is good...

Everything is good . . . as long as it is unpossessed. Satiety and possession are Death's horses; they run in...

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Jean Paul Richter: Only actions give...

Jean Paul Richter: Only actions give...

Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it charm.

Source: In The...

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Stendhal: It is the...

Stendhal: It is the...

It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from...

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Stendhal: The shepherd always...

Stendhal: The shepherd always...

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the...

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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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William Makepeace Thackeray: The most engaging...

William Makepeace Thackeray: The most engaging...

The most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things...

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Joyce Cary: [The] world [is]...

Joyce Cary: [The] world [is]...

[The] world [is] in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions...

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Emily Bronte: A good heart...

Emily Bronte: A good heart...

A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad. . . and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than...

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Toni Morrison: And like any...

Toni Morrison: And like any...

And like any artist with no art form, she became dangerous.

Source: Sula,...

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Kathleen Norris: In spite of...

Kathleen Norris: In spite of...

In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Amy Tan: I did not...

Amy Tan: I did not...

I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the same way carvings on...

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Paul Theroux: The Peace Corps...

Paul Theroux: The Peace Corps...

The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity.

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Paul Theroux: I should have...

Paul Theroux: I should have...

I should have worked just long enough to discover that I didn't like it.

Source: In...

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Kate Seredy: The past lived...

Kate Seredy: The past lived...

The past lived in songs, the present in their flashing swords,and the future in their...

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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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