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Before a man...

Before a man...

Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to...

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Katherine Paterson: A great novel...

Katherine Paterson: A great novel...

A great novel is a kind of conversion experience. We come away from it changed.

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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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Max Frisch: It's precisely the...

Max Frisch: It's precisely the...

It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true...

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Jack London: Affluence means influence....

Jack London: Affluence means influence....

Affluence means influence.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic Reference...

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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: Only great minds...

Stendhal: Only great minds...

Only great minds can afford a simple style.

Source: Fragments, 28.
-- Stendhal,...

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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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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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Ivy Compton-Burnett: Real life seems...

Ivy Compton-Burnett: Real life seems...

Real life seems to have no plot.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic Reference...

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Ivy Compton-Burnett: Time . ....

Ivy Compton-Burnett: Time . ....

Time . . . is not a great healer. It is an indifferent and perfunctory one. Sometimes it does not heal at all. And...

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Jean Rhys: Age seldom arrives...

Jean Rhys: Age seldom arrives...

Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks.

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Anna Sewell: Master said, God...

Anna Sewell: Master said, God...

Master said, God had given men reason, by which they could find out things for themselves; but He gave animals...

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Anna Sewell: Now I say...

Anna Sewell: Now I say...

Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see...

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Paul Theroux: The Peace Corps...

Paul Theroux: The Peace Corps...

The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity.

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Enid Bagnold: The pleasure of...

Enid Bagnold: The pleasure of...

The pleasure of one's effect on other people still exists in age -- what's called making a hit. But the hit is much...

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Mary Roberts Rinehart: Life is a...

Mary Roberts Rinehart: Life is a...

Life is a little work, a little sleep, a little love and it is all over.

Source: In...

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Enid Bagnold: Dead news like...

Enid Bagnold: Dead news like...

Dead news like dead love has no phoenix in its ashes.

Source: National Velvet/...

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Marguerite Duras: A journalist is...

Marguerite Duras: A journalist is...

A journalist is someone who looks at the world and the way it works, someone who takes a close look at things every...

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Ben Hecht: I discovered early...

Ben Hecht: I discovered early...

I discovered early in my movie work that a movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it. There...

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