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Joyce Carol Oates: She ransacked her...

Joyce Carol Oates: She ransacked her...

She ransacked her mind but there was nothing in it.

Source: Them, pt. 1 ch. 15,...

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Djuna Barnes: I'm a fart...

Djuna Barnes: I'm a fart...

I'm a fart in a gale of wind, a humble violet, under a cow pat.

Source: Doctor, in...

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Ralph Ellison: The understanding of...

Ralph Ellison: The understanding of...

The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human...

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Henry Fielding: Every physician almost...

Henry Fielding: Every physician almost...

Every physician almost hath his favorite disease.

Source: Tom Jones, bk. 2, ch. 9,...

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Edna Ferber: Writers should be...

Edna Ferber: Writers should be...

Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.

Source: From...

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Edna Ferber: I think that...

Edna Ferber: I think that...

I think that in order to write really well and convincingly, one must he somewhat poisoned by emotion. Dislike,...

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Peter Abrahams: With Shakespeare and...

Peter Abrahams: With Shakespeare and...

With Shakespeare and poetry, a new world was born. New dreams, new desires, a self consciousness was born. I desired...

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Peter Abrahams: You can't walk...

Peter Abrahams: You can't walk...

You can't walk alone, Many have given the illusion but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each...

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Chinua Achebe: A man who...

Chinua Achebe: A man who...

A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.

Source:...

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Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco: It is never...

Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco: It is never...

It is never any good dwelling on goodbyes. It is not the being together it prolongs, it is the...

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Mary Martha Sherwood: . . ....

Mary Martha Sherwood: . . ....

. . . it is the very nature of sin to prevent man from meditating on spiritual things. . .

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Katherine Paterson: Youth is a...

Katherine Paterson: Youth is a...

Youth is a mortal wound

Source: Jacob Have I Loved, 1980.
-- Katherine Paterson,...

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Kate Seredy: There are hurts...

Kate Seredy: There are hurts...

There are hurts so deep that one cannot reach them or heal them with words.

Source:...

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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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Hosea Ballou: Pretension almost always...

Hosea Ballou: Pretension almost always...

Pretension almost always overdoes the original, and hence exposes itself.

Source:...

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Epicurus: The greater the...

Epicurus: The greater the...

The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.

Source:
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Mencius: He who wishes...

Mencius: He who wishes...

He who wishes to be benevolent will not be rich.

Source: Works, translated by...

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Ernest Renan: In morals, truth...

Ernest Renan: In morals, truth...

In morals, truth is but little prized when it is a mere sentiment, and only attains its full value when realized in...

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Ernest Renan: He whom God...

Ernest Renan: He whom God...

He whom God has touched will always be a being apart: he is, whatever he may do, a stranger among men; he is marked by...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: We should consider...

Friedrich Nietzsche: We should consider...

We should consider every day lost in which we have not danced at least once.

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