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Marguerite Duras: For that's what...

Marguerite Duras: For that's what...

For that's what a woman, a mother wants -- to teach her children to take an interest in life. She knows it's safer for...

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James Agee: Children, taught either...

James Agee: Children, taught either...

Children, taught either years beneath their intelligence or miles wide of relevance to it, or both: their intelligence...

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Anne Bronte: I would not...

Anne Bronte: I would not...

I would not send a poor girl into the world, . . . ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and...

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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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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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Marie Anne du Deffand: God is not...

Marie Anne du Deffand: God is not...

God is not more incomprehensible than you; but if he is not more just, it is hardly worth while beIieving in...

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George Moore: A very slight...

George Moore: A very slight...

A very slight change of our habits is sufficient to destroy our sense of our daily reality, and the reality of the...

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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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J P Donleavy: Writing is turning...

J P Donleavy: Writing is turning...

Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.

Source: Playboy (Chicago, May...

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Mary Wortley Montagu: I despise the...

Mary Wortley Montagu: I despise the...

I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.

Source:
-- Mary...

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Anne Rice: . . ....

Anne Rice: . . ....

. . . as they die, the ones we love, we lose our witnesses, our watchers, those who know and understand the tiny...

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Betty Smith: There's a tree...

Betty Smith: There's a tree...

There's a tree that grows in Brooklyn. Some people call it the Tree of Heaven. No matter where its seed falls, it...

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Johanna Spyri: You mischievous child!...

Johanna Spyri: You mischievous child!...

You mischievous child! she cried, in great excitement. What are you thinking of? Why have you taken everything off?...

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Emmuska Orczy: We seek him...

Emmuska Orczy: We seek him...

We seek him here, we seek him there,
Those Frenchies seek him everywhere.
Is he in heaven? - Is he in...

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Shirley Hazzard: It's a nervous...

Shirley Hazzard: It's a nervous...

It's a nervous work. The state that you need to write is the state that others are paying large sums to get rid...

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William Styron: They are the...

William Styron: They are the...

They are the constants of life, at the core of life, along with nice little delights that come along every now and...

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Lawrence Durrell: I'm trying to...

Lawrence Durrell: I'm trying to...

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Source: Sunday...

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Mordecai Richler: Coming from Canada,...

Mordecai Richler: Coming from Canada,...

Coming from Canada, being a writer and Jewish as well, I have impeccable paranoia...

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Mordecai Richler: Remember this, Griffin....

Mordecai Richler: Remember this, Griffin....

Remember this, Griffin. The revolution eats its own. Capitalism recreates itself.

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Patrick White: I dunno,' Arthur...

Patrick White: I dunno,' Arthur...

I dunno,' Arthur said. 'I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I've learnt.'

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