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Thomas Merton: The biggest human...

Thomas Merton: The biggest human...

The biggest human temptation is. . . to settle for too little.

Source: In Webster's...

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Thomas ? Kempis: How quickly the...

Thomas ? Kempis: How quickly the...

How quickly the world's glory passes away.

Source: De Imitatione Christi
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Willa Cather: A child's attitude...

Willa Cather: A child's attitude...

A child's attitude toward everything is an artist's attitude.

Source: The Song of...

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Isaac Singer: The waste basket...

Isaac Singer: The waste basket...

The waste basket is the writer's best friend.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Anne Tyler: I've always thought...

Anne Tyler: I've always thought...

I've always thought a hotel ought to offer optional small animals. . . . I mean a cat to sleep on your bed at night,...

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Anne Tyler: While armchair travelers...

Anne Tyler: While armchair travelers...

While armchair travelers dream of going places, traveling armchairs dream of staying put.

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Giambattista Vico: Men first feel...

Giambattista Vico: Men first feel...

Men first feel necessity, then look for utility, next attend to comfort, still later amuse themselves with pleasure,...

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Friedrich Engels: Freedom is the...

Friedrich Engels: Freedom is the...

Freedom is the recognition of necessity.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Socrates: Employ your time...

Socrates: Employ your time...

Employ your time improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily to what others have labored...

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Gertrude Stein: Money is always...

Gertrude Stein: Money is always...

Money is always there, but the pockets change.

Source: The Practical Cogitator,...

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Mary Wortley Montagu: Whatever is clearly...

Mary Wortley Montagu: Whatever is clearly...

Whatever is clearly expressed is well wrote.

Source: letter to James Steuart, July...

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Arthur Conan Doyle: A client is...

Arthur Conan Doyle: A client is...

A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem.

Source: Sherlock Holmes in...

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Jean Genet: To achieve harmony...

Jean Genet: To achieve harmony...

To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.

Source: The Thief's...

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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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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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Judith Rossner: Identity is a...

Judith Rossner: Identity is a...

Identity is a bag and a gag. Yet it exists for me with all the force of a fatal disease. Obviously I am here, a mind...

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Lawrence Durrell: Journeys, like artists,...

Lawrence Durrell: Journeys, like artists,...

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them...

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Alan Paton: Life has not...

Alan Paton: Life has not...

Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of...

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William Gilmore Simms: Tact is one...

William Gilmore Simms: Tact is one...

Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of which is often fatal to the best of talents; it supplies the...

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