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Margaret Mitchell: I'm tired of...

Margaret Mitchell: I'm tired of...

I'm tired of saying, How wonderful you are! to fool men who haven't got one-half the sense I've got, and I'm tired of...

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Toni Morrison: The ability of...

Toni Morrison: The ability of...

The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the...

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Daphne DuMaurier: She could not...

Daphne DuMaurier: She could not...

She could not separate success from peace of mind. The two must go together.

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Faith Baldwin: Character builds slowly,...

Faith Baldwin: Character builds slowly,...

Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

Source:...

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Eleanor H Porter: Oh, yes, the...

Eleanor H Porter: Oh, yes, the...

Oh, yes, the game was to just find something about everything to be glad about -- not matter what twas, rejoined...

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Eleanor H Porter: Hold up to...

Eleanor H Porter: Hold up to...

Hold up to him his better self, his real self that can dare and do and win out . . . People radiate what is in their...

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Grace Metalious: Didn't you ever...

Grace Metalious: Didn't you ever...

Didn't you ever notice how it's always people who wish they had somethin' or had done somethin' that hate the...

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Daisy Ashford: My life will...

Daisy Ashford: My life will...

My life will be sour grapes and ashes without you.

Source: The Young Visiters,...

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Theodore Dreiser: Nothing is proved,...

Theodore Dreiser: Nothing is proved,...

Nothing is proved, all is permitted.

Source: The Titan, 1914.
-- Theodore...

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Gloria Naylor: His entire life...

Gloria Naylor: His entire life...

His entire life was becoming a race against the natural -- and he was winning.

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Francois Mauriac: Men resemble great...

Francois Mauriac: Men resemble great...

Men resemble great deserted palaces: the owner occupies only a few rooms and has closed-off wings where he never...

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P G Wodehouse: I know I...

P G Wodehouse: I know I...

I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don't know what I did before that. Just loafed I...

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Jean Paul: Without God there...

Jean Paul: Without God there...

Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every...

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P G Wodehouse: Sudden success in...

P G Wodehouse: Sudden success in...

Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the...

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Christopher Morley: Big shots are...

Christopher Morley: Big shots are...

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Christopher Morley: A human being,...

Christopher Morley: A human being,...

A human being, he wrote, is a whispering in the steam pipes on a cold night; dust sifted through a locked window; one...

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Mark Twain: Always do right;...

Mark Twain: Always do right;...

Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

Source: In...

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Edward Dahlberg: Herman Melville was...

Edward Dahlberg: Herman Melville was...

Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great...

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Edward Dahlberg: Everything ultimately fails,...

Edward Dahlberg: Everything ultimately fails,...

Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical...

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Edward Dahlberg: Look at this...

Edward Dahlberg: Look at this...

Look at this poet William Carlos Williams: he is primitive and native, and his roots are in raw forest and violent...

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