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Hugh Walpole: All paraphrases and...

Hugh Walpole: All paraphrases and...

All paraphrases and expletives are so much in disuse that soon the only way of making love will be to say, Lie...

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Eleanor H Porter: I can't see...

Eleanor H Porter: I can't see...

I can't see anythin, ter be glad about -- gettin, a pair of crutches when you wanted a doll! . . .
Goosey! Why,...

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Grace Metalious: . ....

Grace Metalious: . ....

. . . to talk about adults without talking about their sex drives is like talking about a window without...

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Judith Rossner: He always said...

Judith Rossner: He always said...

He always said she was smart, but their conversations were a mined field in which at any moment she might make the...

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Judith Rossner: A lie was...

Judith Rossner: A lie was...

A lie was something that hadn't happened but might just as well have.

Source:...

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Marion Zimmer Bradley: [T]he House of...

Marion Zimmer Bradley: [T]he House of...

[T]he House of Maidens was for little girls whose whole duty in life was to spill things, break things, and forget...

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Emmuska Orczy: It is only...

Emmuska Orczy: It is only...

It is only when we are very happy that we can bear to gaze merrily upon the vast and limitless expanse of water,...

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Tom Clancy: Never ask what...

Tom Clancy: Never ask what...

Never ask what sort of computer a guy drives. If he's a Mac user, he'll tell you. If not, why embarrass...

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William Styron: Let's face it,...

William Styron: Let's face it,...

Let's face it, writing is hell.

Source: Interview in Writers at Work (First...

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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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Ronald Firbank: To be sympathetic...

Ronald Firbank: To be sympathetic...

To be sympathetic without discrimination is so very debilitating.

Source:...

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Angus Wilson: I have no...

Angus Wilson: I have no...

I have no concern for the common man except that he should not be so common.

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Clive Barker: And we'll watch...

Clive Barker: And we'll watch...

'And we'll watch and photograph you for ten years after you die, then we'll run the film.' Wouldn't that be...

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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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William H Gass: Only the slow...

William H Gass: Only the slow...

Only the slow reader ... will notice the odd crowd of images flier, butcher, seal which have gathered to comment on...

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Mary Roberts Rinehart: Men deceive themselves;...

Mary Roberts Rinehart: Men deceive themselves;...

Men deceive themselves; they look back on the children who were once themselves, and attempt to reconstruct them. But...

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Enid Bagnold: Dead news like...

Enid Bagnold: Dead news like...

Dead news like dead love has no phoenix in its ashes.

Source: National Velvet/...

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