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Ronald Firbank: All millionaires love...

Ronald Firbank: All millionaires love...

All millionaires love a baked apple.

Source: Vainglory, Ch. 13.
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Lawana Blackwell: Propriety was a...

Lawana Blackwell: Propriety was a...

Propriety was a rigid master, but one that must be obeyed if one wanted to keep a sterling...

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Malcolm Bradbury: Only the old...

Malcolm Bradbury: Only the old...

Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of...

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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: The plot surges...

Robert Ludlum: The plot surges...

The plot surges forward, complex gears mesh and strip and make a hell of a lot of noise -- drowning out the worki of...

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Arnold Bennett: You can only...

Arnold Bennett: You can only...

You can only acquire really useful general ideas by first acquiring particular ideas . . . You cannot make bricks...

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Arnold Bennett: All wrong doing...

Arnold Bennett: All wrong doing...

All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do.

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Francois Mauriac: I write whenever...

Francois Mauriac: I write whenever...

I write whenever it suits me. During a creative period I write every day; a novel should not be interrupted. When I...

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Sir Walter Besant: A man of...

Sir Walter Besant: A man of...

A man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral...

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Alex Haley: Never completely encircle...

Alex Haley: Never completely encircle...

Never completely encircle your enemy. Leave him some escape, for he will fight even more desperately if...

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Gay Talese: News, if unreported,...

Gay Talese: News, if unreported,...

News, if unreported, has no impact. It might as well have not happened at all.

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Edna O'Brien: I'm a tuning...

Edna O'Brien: I'm a tuning...

I'm a tuning fork, tense and twanging all the time.

Source: In An Uncommon Scold,...

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Leo Tolstoy: Life consists in...

Leo Tolstoy: Life consists in...

Life consists in penetrating the unknown, and fashioning our actions in accord with the new knowledge thus...

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William H Gass: Life is itself...

William H Gass: Life is itself...

Life is itself exile . . . It is a blow from which only death will recover us.

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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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Rose Tremain: Life is not...

Rose Tremain: Life is not...

Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Source: In the Sunday Correspondent (London), 24 Dec...

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Anne Bronte: Keep guard over...

Anne Bronte: Keep guard over...

Keep guard over your eyes and ears as the inlets of your heart, and over your lips as the outlets, lest they betray...

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Jack Kerouac: I don't know,...

Jack Kerouac: I don't know,...

I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference!

Source: In The...

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Mark Twain: What a wee...

Mark Twain: What a wee...

What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and known to...

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Horace Walpole: It was easier...

Horace Walpole: It was easier...

It was easier to conquer it than to know what to do with it.

Source: Letter to Sir...

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