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Tom Sharpe: There's nothing worse...

Tom Sharpe: There's nothing worse...

There's nothing worse than an introspective drunk.

Source: In Treasury of Humorous...

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Margery Allingham: When the habitually...

Margery Allingham: When the habitually...

When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the...

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Margery Allingham: When one kicks...

Margery Allingham: When one kicks...

When one kicks over a tea table and smashes everything but the sugar bowl, one may as well pick that up and drop it on...

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Jean Genet: Perhaps all music,...

Jean Genet: Perhaps all music,...

Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay...

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Enid Bagnold: As for death...

Enid Bagnold: As for death...

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

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John Mortimer: The freedom to...

John Mortimer: The freedom to...

The freedom to make a fortune on the Stock Exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of...

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Ben Hecht: I'm a Hollywood...

Ben Hecht: I'm a Hollywood...

I'm a Hollywood writer; so I put on a sports jacket and take off my brain.

Source:...

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John Sterling: Pain has its...

John Sterling: Pain has its...

Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant...

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Thomas Love Peacock: He was sent,...

Thomas Love Peacock: He was sent,...

He was sent, as usual, to a public school, where a little learning was painfully beaten into him, and from thence to...

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Boris Pasternak: At the moment...

Boris Pasternak: At the moment...

At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned,...

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Boris Pasternak: As far as...

Boris Pasternak: As far as...

As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. . . ....

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Helen Hunt Jackson: Words are less...

Helen Hunt Jackson: Words are less...

Words are less needful to sorrow than to joy.

Source: Ramona, 1884.
-- Helen...

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Sir Walter Scott: When a man...

Sir Walter Scott: When a man...

When a man has not a good reason for doing a thing, he has one good reason for letting it...

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Djuna Barnes: A strong sense...

Djuna Barnes: A strong sense...

A strong sense of identity gives man an idea he can do no wrong; too little accomplishes the...

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Djuna Barnes: An image is...

Djuna Barnes: An image is...

An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties.

Source: Nightwood,...

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George Moore: Remorse is beholding...

George Moore: Remorse is beholding...

Remorse is beholding heaven and feeling hell.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Margery Allingham: In common with...

Margery Allingham: In common with...

In common with many Christians of the classic type he felt sincerely safer and more at ease when he had given away all...

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Edgar Watson Howe: Don't be crazy...

Edgar Watson Howe: Don't be crazy...

Don't be crazy to do a lot of things you can't do .

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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G K Chesterton: If you do...

G K Chesterton: If you do...

If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will...

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G K Chesterton: You shouldn't take...

G K Chesterton: You shouldn't take...

You shouldn't take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.

Source:...

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