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William H Gass: The speeding reader...

William H Gass: The speeding reader...

The speeding reader guts a book the way the skillful clean fish. The gills are gone, the tail, the scales, the fins;...

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Rudolph Fisher: The rhythm persisted,...

Rudolph Fisher: The rhythm persisted,...

The rhythm persisted, the unfaltering common meter of blues, but the blueness itself, the sorrow, the despair, began...

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Marguerite Duras: For that's what...

Marguerite Duras: For that's what...

For that's what a woman, a mother wants -- to teach her children to take an interest in life. She knows it's safer for...

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Carlos Fuentes: I don't think...

Carlos Fuentes: I don't think...

I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before...

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Milan Kundera: The serial number...

Milan Kundera: The serial number...

The serial number of a human specimen is the face, that accidental and unrepeatable combination of features. It...

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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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Sylvia Plath: Too much attention...

Sylvia Plath: Too much attention...

Too much attention to health is a hindrance to learning, to invention, and to studies of any kind, for we are always...

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Boris Pasternak: Art is interested...

Boris Pasternak: Art is interested...

Art is interested in life at the moment when the ray of power is passing through it.

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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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Djuna Barnes: New York is...

Djuna Barnes: New York is...

New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical...

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Benjamin Disraeli: He who anticipates...

Benjamin Disraeli: He who anticipates...

He who anticipates his century is generally persecuted when living, and always pilfered when...

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Edward Everett: Are you complete...

Edward Everett: Are you complete...

Are you complete in yourself? [The root] answers, No, my life is in the trunk and the branches and the leaves. Keep...

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Edmund Burke: I know of...

Edmund Burke: I know of...

I know of nothing sublime which is not some modification of power.

Source: In The...

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Nancy Astor: Pioneers may be...

Nancy Astor: Pioneers may be...

Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.

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Nancy Astor: Women have got...

Nancy Astor: Women have got...

Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for...

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Hubert H Humphrey: Much of our...

Hubert H Humphrey: Much of our...

Much of our American progress has been the product of the individual who had an idea; pursued it; fashioned it;...

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Hubert H Humphrey: To err is...

Hubert H Humphrey: To err is...

To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Eugene McCarthy: Being in politics...

Eugene McCarthy: Being in politics...

Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game and dumb enough...

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Eugene McCarthy: The only thing...

Eugene McCarthy: The only thing...

The only thing that saves us from bureaucracy is its inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to...

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James Buchanan: What is right...

James Buchanan: What is right...

What is right and what is practicable are two different things.

Source: Comment,...

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