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Peter Abrahams: You can't walk...

Peter Abrahams: You can't walk...

You can't walk alone, Many have given the illusion but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each...

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Chinua Achebe: When suffering knocks...

Chinua Achebe: When suffering knocks...

When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has...

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Leo Rosten: A writer writes...

Leo Rosten: A writer writes...

A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to...

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Ivy Compton-Burnett: Real life seems...

Ivy Compton-Burnett: Real life seems...

Real life seems to have no plot.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic Reference...

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Nadine Gordimer: The creative act...

Nadine Gordimer: The creative act...

The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read...

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Toni Morrison: Bit by bit...

Toni Morrison: Bit by bit...

Bit by bit . . . she had claimed herself. Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was...

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Elizabeth Stuart Phelps: It is not...

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps: It is not...

It is not the straining for great things that is most effective; it is the doing the little things, the common duties,...

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Judith Guest: And if you...

Judith Guest: And if you...

And if you ever do a survey, you'll find that people prefer illusion to reality, ten to one. Twenty,...

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Susan Warner: Many a bit...

Susan Warner: Many a bit...

Many a bit we passed in our ignorance, in the days when we could see no metal but what glittered on the surface . ....

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Grace Metalious: Even Tom Sawyer...

Grace Metalious: Even Tom Sawyer...

Even Tom Sawyer had a girlfriend . . .

Source: Defending Peyton Place, NY Mirror, 6...

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Grace Metalious: I looked into...

Grace Metalious: I looked into...

I looked into that empty bottle and I saw myself.

Source: On her bout with...

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J G Ballard: Science and technology...

J G Ballard: Science and technology...

Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and...

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Joyce Cary: Religion is organized...

Joyce Cary: Religion is organized...

Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul -- politics does the same thing for the...

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Richard Bach: Your friends will...

Richard Bach: Your friends will...

Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand...

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Edward Westcott: Do unto the...

Edward Westcott: Do unto the...

Do unto the other feller the way he'd like to do unto you, and do it fast.

Source:...

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Gore Vidal: I like the...

Gore Vidal: I like the...

I like the way you always manage to state the obvious with a sense of real discovery.

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Marguerite Yourcenar: A young musician...

Marguerite Yourcenar: A young musician...

A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the other hand, sometimes...

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Jean Paul: Memory is the...

Jean Paul: Memory is the...

Memory is the only paradise from which we cannot be driven.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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P G Wodehouse: It is not...

P G Wodehouse: It is not...

It is not mere technical skill that makes a man a golfer, it is the golfing soul.

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P G Wodehouse: It was my...

P G Wodehouse: It was my...

It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical...

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