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E B White: DEMOCRACY: n: The...

E B White: DEMOCRACY: n: The...

DEMOCRACY: n: The recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the...

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Ernest Hemingway: Cowardice . ....

Ernest Hemingway: Cowardice . ....

Cowardice . . . is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the...

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Publilius Syrus: It is a...

Publilius Syrus: It is a...

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Publilius Syrus: In quarreling the...

Publilius Syrus: In quarreling the...

In quarreling the truth is always lost.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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P D James: We English are...

P D James: We English are...

We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our...

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Madeleine L'Engle: That's the way...

Madeleine L'Engle: That's the way...

That's the way things come clear. All of the sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all...

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Jack London: You can't wait...

Jack London: You can't wait...

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

Source: In The...

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Gloria Naylor: The last time...

Gloria Naylor: The last time...

The last time you're doing something -- knowing you're doing it for the last -- makes it even more alive than the...

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Christopher Morley: Read, every day,...

Christopher Morley: Read, every day,...

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day,...

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Christopher Morley: Heaven is not...

Christopher Morley: Heaven is not...

Heaven is not built of country seats
But little queer suburban streets.


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Christopher Morley: Any man worth...

Christopher Morley: Any man worth...

Any man worth his salt has by the time he is forty-five accumulated a crown of thorns, and the problem is to learn to...

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Herman Wouk: I felt there's...

Herman Wouk: I felt there's...

I felt there's a wealth in Jewish tradition, a great inheritance. I'd be a jerk not to take advantage of...

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Nancy Mitford: I have only...

Nancy Mitford: I have only...

I have only read one book in my life and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read...

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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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Sloan Wilson: It is impossible...

Sloan Wilson: It is impossible...

It is impossible to treat a child too well. Children are spoiled by being ignored too much or by harshness, not by...

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Sloan Wilson: The hardest part...

Sloan Wilson: The hardest part...

The hardest part of raising a child is teaching them to ride bicycles. A father can only ride beside the bicycle or...

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John Fowles: The most important...

John Fowles: The most important...

The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.

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John Fowles: We all write...

John Fowles: We all write...

We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.

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Umberto Eco: I would define...

Umberto Eco: I would define...

I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings,...

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E M Forster: Faith, to my...

E M Forster: Faith, to my...

Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as...

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