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George Meredith: The man of...

George Meredith: The man of...

The man of science is nothing if not a poet gone wrong.

Source: In Isaac Asimov's...

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James Agee: We are talking...

James Agee: We are talking...

We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the time that I lived there so successfully...

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Tama Janowitz: Long after the...

Tama Janowitz: Long after the...

Long after the bomb falls and you and your good deeds are gone, cockroaches will still be here, prowling the streets...

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Dorothy Miller Richardson: There; how d'ye...

Dorothy Miller Richardson: There; how d'ye...

There; how d'ye like that, eh? A liberal education in twelve volumes, with an index.

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Barbara Cartland: Of course they...

Barbara Cartland: Of course they...

Of course they have, or I wouldn't be sitting here talking to someone like you.

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Barbara Cartland: I'll keep going...

Barbara Cartland: I'll keep going...

I'll keep going till my face falls off.

Source: The Observer, 'Sayings of the...

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J G Ballard: We live in...

J G Ballard: We live in...

We live in a world ruled by fictions of every kind -- mass merchandising, advertising, politics conducted as a branch...

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Herman Wouk: Illusion is an...

Herman Wouk: Illusion is an...

Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality.

Source: War and...

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Nancy Mitford: I have only...

Nancy Mitford: I have only...

I have only read one book in my life and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read...

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Betty Smith: I wrote about...

Betty Smith: I wrote about...

I wrote about people who liked, fake fireplaces in their parlor, who thought a brass horse with a clock embedded in...

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Emmuska Orczy: I sometimes wish...

Emmuska Orczy: I sometimes wish...

I sometimes wish you had not so many lofty virtues.... I assure you little sins are far less dangerous and...

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Nella Larsen: It was ....

Nella Larsen: It was ....

It was . . . enough to suffer as a woman, an individual, on one's own account, without having to suffer for the race...

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Norman Douglas: To know oneself...

Norman Douglas: To know oneself...

To know oneself is wisdom, but to know one's neighbor is genius.

Source: In The...

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William Gilmore Simms: The true law...

William Gilmore Simms: The true law...

The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is...

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Mordecai Richler: And furthermore did...

Mordecai Richler: And furthermore did...

And furthermore did you know that behind the discovery of America there was a Jewish...

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Clive Barker: And we'll watch...

Clive Barker: And we'll watch...

'And we'll watch and photograph you for ten years after you die, then we'll run the film.' Wouldn't that be...

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Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco: Irony is the...

Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco: Irony is the...

Irony is the hygiene of the mind.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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George Moore: The world is...

George Moore: The world is...

The world is dying of machinery; that is the great disease, that is the plague that will sweep away and destroy...

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Edgar Watson Howe: Common sense is...

Edgar Watson Howe: Common sense is...

Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone.

Source:...

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W C Sellar: Whenever he returned...

W C Sellar: Whenever he returned...

Whenever he returned to England he always set out again immediately for the Mediterranean and was therefore known as...

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