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Marguerite Yourcenar: The memory of...

Marguerite Yourcenar: The memory of...

The memory of most men is an abandoned cemetery where lie, unsung and unhonored, the dead whom they have ceased to...

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Edward Hoagland: True solitude is...

Edward Hoagland: True solitude is...

True solitude is a din of birdsong, seething leaves, whirling colors, or a clamor of tracks in the...

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Olive Schreiner: Everything has two...

Olive Schreiner: Everything has two...

Everything has two sides --the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.

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Gay Talese: The real problem...

Gay Talese: The real problem...

The real problem is what to do with problem solvers after the problem is solved.

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Alexander Woollcott: Many of us...

Alexander Woollcott: Many of us...

Many of us spend half our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time...

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Anthony Burgess: The trouble began...

Anthony Burgess: The trouble began...

The trouble began with Forster. After him it was considered ungentlemanly to write more than five or six...

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Orson Scott Card: In the moment...

Orson Scott Card: In the moment...

In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I...

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Alexandre Dumas, p?re: No matter how...

Alexandre Dumas, p?re: No matter how...

No matter how hardened to danger a man may be, he always realizes from the pounding of his heart and the shivering of...

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Erich Segal: Love means never...

Erich Segal: Love means never...

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Source: Love Story, 1970.
-- Erich...

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Edna Ferber: Only amateurs say...

Edna Ferber: Only amateurs say...

Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination...

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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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