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Alexandre Dumas, p?re: Only a man...

Alexandre Dumas, p?re: Only a man...

Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.

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Booth Tarkington: Mystics always hope...

Booth Tarkington: Mystics always hope...

Mystics always hope that science will some day overtake them.

Source: Looking...

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Lillian Smith: When you stop...

Lillian Smith: When you stop...

When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to...

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Gloria Naylor: Time's passage through...

Gloria Naylor: Time's passage through...

Time's passage through the memory is like molten glass that can be opaque or crystallize at any given moment at will:...

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Andre Gide: Art is a...

Andre Gide: Art is a...

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the...

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Rose Tremain: Kept falling in...

Rose Tremain: Kept falling in...

Kept falling in and out of it [sleep] like out of a boat or a tipping hammock.

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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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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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Marguerite Duras: Journalism without a...

Marguerite Duras: Journalism without a...

Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely...

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Marguerite Duras: Before they're plumbers...

Marguerite Duras: Before they're plumbers...

Before they're plumbers or writers or taxi drivers or unemployed or journalists, men are men. Whether heterosexual or...

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Thomas Hardy: That man's silence...

Thomas Hardy: That man's silence...

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Source: Spinks, in Under the...

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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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Susan Warner: He who serves...

Susan Warner: He who serves...

He who serves God with what costs him nothing, will do very little service, you may depend on...

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J G Ballard: Everything is becoming...

J G Ballard: Everything is becoming...

Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact...

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Herman Wouk: Income tax returns:...

Herman Wouk: Income tax returns:...

Income tax returns: the most imaginative fiction written today.

Source: In 1,911...

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Charles Reade: Sow an act...

Charles Reade: Sow an act...

Sow an act and you reap a habit.
Sow a habit and you reap a character.
Sow a character and you reap a...

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Judith Rossner: So often I...

Judith Rossner: So often I...

So often I heard people paying blind obeisance to change as though it had some virtue of its own. Change or we will...

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Emmuska Orczy: I sometimes wish...

Emmuska Orczy: I sometimes wish...

I sometimes wish you had not so many lofty virtues.... I assure you little sins are far less dangerous and...

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Shirley Hazzard: Perhaps if we...

Shirley Hazzard: Perhaps if we...

Perhaps if we lived with less physical beauty we would develop our true natures more.

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Nella Larsen: If a man...

Nella Larsen: If a man...

If a man calls me a nigger it's his fault the first time, but mine if he has the opportunity to do it...

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