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Louisa May Alcott: All is fish...

Louisa May Alcott: All is fish...

All is fish that comes to the literary net. Goethe puts his joys and sorrows into poems, I turn my adventures into...

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Gloria Naylor: The last time...

Gloria Naylor: The last time...

The last time you're doing something -- knowing you're doing it for the last -- makes it even more alive than the...

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Andre Gide: One doesn't discover...

Andre Gide: One doesn't discover...

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long...

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Andre Gide: The work of...

Andre Gide: The work of...

The work of art is the exaggeration of an idea.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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John Barth: Nothing is intrinsically...

John Barth: Nothing is intrinsically...

Nothing is intrinsically valuable; the value of everything is attributed to it, assigned to it from outside the thing...

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John Barth: Like an ox-cart...

John Barth: Like an ox-cart...

Like an ox-cart driver in monsoon season or the skipper of a grounded ship, one must sometimes go forward by going...

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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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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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Brian Moore: Research is usually...

Brian Moore: Research is usually...

Research is usually a policeman stopping a novel from progressing.

Source: In...

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Marquis de Sade: All universal moral...

Marquis de Sade: All universal moral...

All universal moral principles are idle fancies.

Source: The 120 Days of...

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E M Forster: The only books...

E M Forster: The only books...

The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our...

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E M Forster: To make us...

E M Forster: To make us...

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong...

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E M Forster: Tolerance is a...

E M Forster: Tolerance is a...

Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely...

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Madeleine L'Engle: I love my...

Madeleine L'Engle: I love my...

I love my mother, not as a prisoner of atherosclerosis, but as a person; and I must love her enough to accept her as...

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Madeleine L'Engle: A life lived...

Madeleine L'Engle: A life lived...

A life lived in chaos is an impossibility for the artist. No matter how unstructured may seem the painter's garret in...

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Douglas Coupland: Big companies are...

Douglas Coupland: Big companies are...

Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like...

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Stephen Potter: Just as there...

Stephen Potter: Just as there...

Just as there are O.K.-words in conversationship so there are O.K.-people to mention in...

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Frederick Douglass: Man's greatness consists...

Frederick Douglass: Man's greatness consists...

Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be...

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Frederick Douglass: If there is...

Frederick Douglass: If there is...

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom yet depreciate agitation, are men...

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P D James: There comes a...

P D James: There comes a...

There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.

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