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Leo Tolstoy: Life consists in...

Leo Tolstoy: Life consists in...

Life consists in penetrating the unknown, and fashioning our actions in accord with the new knowledge thus...

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Rose Tremain: Life should be...

Rose Tremain: Life should be...

Life should be embraced like a lover.

Source: In ...As One Mad With Wine, by Elyse...

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Rose Tremain: The Imagination conjures...

Rose Tremain: The Imagination conjures...

The Imagination conjures gifts; what the ungrateful, unsentimental part of the mind has to do is to unwrap them, find...

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Mary Roberts Rinehart: But to some...

Mary Roberts Rinehart: But to some...

But to some He gives only a soul, without intelligence and these, who never grow up, but remain always His children,...

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Anne Bronte: Keep guard over...

Anne Bronte: Keep guard over...

Keep guard over your eyes and ears as the inlets of your heart, and over your lips as the outlets, lest they betray...

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George Meredith: Cynicism is intellectual...

George Meredith: Cynicism is intellectual...

Cynicism is intellectual dandyism without the coxcomb's feathers.

Source: Clara...

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Thomas Love Peacock: There are two...

Thomas Love Peacock: There are two...

There are two reasons for drinking; one is, when you are thirsty, to cure it; the other, when you are not thirsty, to...

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James Agee: In every child...

James Agee: In every child...

In every child who is born, under no matter what circumstances, and no matter what parents, the potentiality of the...

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James Agee: When he ran...

James Agee: When he ran...

When he ran from a cop his transitions from accelerating walk to easy jog trot to brisk canter to headlong gallop to...

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Judith Guest: He had led...

Judith Guest: He had led...

He had led off being a perfectionist when he discovered that not promptly kept appointments, not a house circumspectly...

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Grace Metalious: Didn't you ever...

Grace Metalious: Didn't you ever...

Didn't you ever notice how it's always people who wish they had somethin' or had done somethin' that hate the...

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Barbara Cartland: As long as...

Barbara Cartland: As long as...

As long as the plots keep arriving from outer space, I'll go on with my virgins.

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Barbara Cartland: I'll keep going...

Barbara Cartland: I'll keep going...

I'll keep going till my face falls off.

Source: The Observer, 'Sayings of the...

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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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Nancy Mitford: Surely a king...

Nancy Mitford: Surely a king...

Surely a king who loves pleasure is less dangerous than one who loves glory.

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Marion Zimmer Bradley: The truth is...

Marion Zimmer Bradley: The truth is...

The truth is not so good a story.

Source: The Firebrand, 1987.
-- Marion Zimmer...

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Alan Paton: If you wrote...

Alan Paton: If you wrote...

If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth...

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William Gilmore Simms: Neither praise or...

William Gilmore Simms: Neither praise or...

Neither praise or blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to...

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Mordecai Richler: Fundamentally, all writing...

Mordecai Richler: Fundamentally, all writing...

Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here,...

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Angus Wilson: She was more...

Angus Wilson: She was more...

She was more than ever proud of the position of the bungalow, so almost in the country.

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