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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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Martin Amis: Every writer hopes...

Martin Amis: Every writer hopes...

Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be...

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Lawana Blackwell: Propriety was a...

Lawana Blackwell: Propriety was a...

Propriety was a rigid master, but one that must be obeyed if one wanted to keep a sterling...

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Sholem Asch: Writing comes more...

Sholem Asch: Writing comes more...

Writing comes more easily if you have something to say.

Source: In Webster's...

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Mark Twain: I cannot see...

Mark Twain: I cannot see...

I cannot see how a man of any large degree of humorous perception can ever be religious -- except he purposely shut...

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Gay Talese: The reporter ....

Gay Talese: The reporter ....

The reporter . . . wrote with the hope that he would get a by-line in the Times, a testimony to his being alive on...

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Malcolm Bradbury: Only the old...

Malcolm Bradbury: Only the old...

Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of...

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Arnold Bennett: All wrong doing...

Arnold Bennett: All wrong doing...

All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do.

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Rachel Field: I used to...

Rachel Field: I used to...

I used to think I had ambition . . . but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily...

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George Moore: Art must be...

George Moore: Art must be...

Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.

Source:...

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Mary Wortley Montagu: No entertainment is...

Mary Wortley Montagu: No entertainment is...

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret the...

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