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William Makepeace Thackeray: Novelty has charms...

William Makepeace Thackeray: Novelty has charms...

Novelty has charms that our mind can hardly withstand.

Source: In Correct Quotes...

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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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Knut Hamsun: Language must resound...

Knut Hamsun: Language must resound...

Language must resound with all the harmonies of music. The writer must always, at all times, find the tremulous word...

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Nadine Gordimer: The gap between...

Nadine Gordimer: The gap between...

The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only,...

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Anzia Yezierska: The real thing...

Anzia Yezierska: The real thing...

The real thing creates its own poetry.

Source: Red Ribbon on a White Horse,...

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Daphne DuMaurier: Life and death...

Daphne DuMaurier: Life and death...

Life and death do not wait for legal action.

Source: My Cousin Rachel, 1952.
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Djuna Barnes: Dreams have only...

Djuna Barnes: Dreams have only...

Dreams have only the pigmentation of fact.

Source: Doctor, in Nightwood, ch. 5,...

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Edward Everett: You shall not...

Edward Everett: You shall not...

You shall not pile, with servile toil,
Your monuments upon my breast,
Nor yet within the common soil
Lay down...

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Helene Deutsch: The embattled gates...

Helene Deutsch: The embattled gates...

The embattled gates to equal rights indeed opened up for modern women, but I sometimes think to myself: That is not...

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Havelock Ellis: Every artist writes...

Havelock Ellis: Every artist writes...

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Source: The New Spirit, Tolstoi,...

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Stanley Baldwin: A statesman wants...

Stanley Baldwin: A statesman wants...

A statesman wants courage and a statesman wants vision; but believe me, after six months' experience, he wants first,...

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Alexander Hamilton: Real firmness is...

Alexander Hamilton: Real firmness is...

Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.

Source: In Correct...

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Robert Ludlum: The typewriter is...

Robert Ludlum: The typewriter is...

The typewriter is dusted and pencils are sharpened, doors are closed and heady music is played to drown out the sounds...

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Arnold Bennett: Always behave as...

Arnold Bennett: Always behave as...

Always behave as if nothing had happened, no matter what has happened.

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Charles W Chesnutt: I think I...

Charles W Chesnutt: I think I...

I think I must write a book It has been my cherished dream and I feel an influence that I cannot resist calling me to...

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John Oliver Killens: The Negro was...

John Oliver Killens: The Negro was...

The Negro was invented in America.

Source: In Famous Black Quotations, ed. Janet...

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Edna O'Brien: In a way...

Edna O'Brien: In a way...

In a way winter is the real spring, the time when the inner things happen, the resurge of...

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Leo Tolstoy: The two most...

Leo Tolstoy: The two most...

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

Source: War and Peace.
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Rudolph Fisher: In Harlem, black...

Rudolph Fisher: In Harlem, black...

In Harlem, black was white. You had rights that could not be denied you; you had privileges, protected by law. And you...

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Rudolph Fisher: The rhythm persisted,...

Rudolph Fisher: The rhythm persisted,...

The rhythm persisted, the unfaltering common meter of blues, but the blueness itself, the sorrow, the despair, began...

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