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Mark Twain: What a man...

Mark Twain: What a man...

What a man misses mostly in heaven is company.

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-- Mark Twain, (Nov 30...

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Enid Bagnold: A father is...

Enid Bagnold: A father is...

A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back...

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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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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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Sylvia Plath: Too much attention...

Sylvia Plath: Too much attention...

Too much attention to health is a hindrance to learning, to invention, and to studies of any kind, for we are always...

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Anne Bronte: There is always...

Anne Bronte: There is always...

There is always a but in this imperfect world.

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall,...

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James Agee: When he ran...

James Agee: When he ran...

When he ran from a cop his transitions from accelerating walk to easy jog trot to brisk canter to headlong gallop to...

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Boris Pasternak: Art has two...

Boris Pasternak: Art has two...

Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great,...

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Boris Pasternak: I come here...

Boris Pasternak: I come here...

I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It...

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Djuna Barnes: New York is...

Djuna Barnes: New York is...

New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical...

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Channing Pollock: Home is the...

Channing Pollock: Home is the...

Home is the most popular, and will be the most enduring of all earthly establishments.

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Jean Toomer: No eyes that...

Jean Toomer: No eyes that...

No eyes that have seen beauty ever lose their sight.

Source: Cane, 1923.
-- Jean...

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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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Saul Bellow: Any artist should...

Saul Bellow: Any artist should...

Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason...

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Don Delillo: Hardship makes the...

Don Delillo: Hardship makes the...

Hardship makes the world obscure.

Source: James Axton, in The Names, ch. 12...

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Robert Ludlum: I write primarily...

Robert Ludlum: I write primarily...

I write primarily as an entertainer. But I find that whehter you're writing comically or dramtically, you write from a...

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Alexander Woollcott: At 83 Shaw's...

Alexander Woollcott: At 83 Shaw's...

At 83 Shaw's mind was perhaps not quite as good as it used to be, but it was still better than anyone...

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Hugh Walpole: The whole secret...

Hugh Walpole: The whole secret...

The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and a thousand other things...

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Anthony Burgess: Art is dangerous....

Anthony Burgess: Art is dangerous....

Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want...

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Anthony Burgess: Blockbusting fiction is...

Anthony Burgess: Blockbusting fiction is...

Blockbusting fiction is bought as furniture. Unread, it maintains its value. Read, it looks like money wasted....

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