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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.
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Katherine Paterson: To fear is...

Katherine Paterson: To fear is...

To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.

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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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Mark Twain: What is there...

Mark Twain: What is there...

What is there in Rome for me to see that others have not seen before me? What is there for me to touch that others...

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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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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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James Agee: The mere attempt...

James Agee: The mere attempt...

The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes.

Source: Let Us...

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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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Djuna Barnes: After all, it...

Djuna Barnes: After all, it...

After all, it is not where one washes one's neck that counts but where one moistens one's...

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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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Dinah Mulock Craik: Believe only half...

Dinah Mulock Craik: Believe only half...

Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.

Source: In Words of...

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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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