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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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Daisy Ashford: My life will...

Daisy Ashford: My life will...

My life will be sour grapes and ashes without you.

Source: The Young Visiters,...

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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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Michael Crichton: We all live...

Michael Crichton: We all live...

We all live every day in virtual environments, defined by our ideas.

Source:...

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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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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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Mordecai Richler: And furthermore did...

Mordecai Richler: And furthermore did...

And furthermore did you know that behind the discovery of America there was a Jewish...

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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: All my novels...

Patrick White: All my novels...

All my novels are an accumulation of detail. I'm a bit of a bower-bird.

Source:...

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Ronald Firbank: All millionaires love...

Ronald Firbank: All millionaires love...

All millionaires love a baked apple.

Source: Vainglory, Ch. 13.
-- Ronald...

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Margaret Truman: It's only when...

Margaret Truman: It's only when...

It's only when you grow up, and step back from him, or leave him for your own career and your own home it's only then...

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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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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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