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Elizabeth Gaskell: Sometimes one likes...

Elizabeth Gaskell: Sometimes one likes...

Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their...

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Henri Bergson: There is no...

Henri Bergson: There is no...

There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by...

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Herman Melville: Give me a...

Herman Melville: Give me a...

Give me a condor's quill! Give me Vesuvius's crater for an ink stand. . . . To produce a mighty book you must choose a...

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Jack London: I write for...

Jack London: I write for...

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than...

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Peter Abrahams: The words dripped...

Peter Abrahams: The words dripped...

The words dripped on my consciousness, sank into my being, and carried me away to the magic long ago of once upon a...

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Elie Wiesel: That is my...

Elie Wiesel: That is my...

That is my major preoccupation --memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify...

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Ivy Compton-Burnett: There is probably...

Ivy Compton-Burnett: There is probably...

There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.

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Ivy Compton-Burnett: My youth is...

Ivy Compton-Burnett: My youth is...

My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me.

Source: A Heritage and...

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Nadine Gordimer: Truth isn't always...

Nadine Gordimer: Truth isn't always...

Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Source: A Bolter and the...

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Nadine Gordimer: Responsibility is what...

Nadine Gordimer: Responsibility is what...

Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity

Source: The Essential...

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Elizabeth Stuart Phelps: It is not...

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps: It is not...

It is not the straining for great things that is most effective; it is the doing the little things, the common duties,...

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Carlos Fuentes: If the Soviet...

Carlos Fuentes: If the Soviet...

If the Soviet Union can give up the Brezhnev Doctrine for the Sinatra Doctrine, the United States can give up the...

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Carlos Fuentes: What the United...

Carlos Fuentes: What the United...

What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand...

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Anthony Burgess: Americans will listen,...

Anthony Burgess: Americans will listen,...

Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which...

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Andre Gide: It is better...

Andre Gide: It is better...

It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.

Source:...

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Edward Hoagland: Men often compete...

Edward Hoagland: Men often compete...

Men often compete with one another until the day they die; comradeship consists of rubbing shoulders jocularly with a...

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Edward Hoagland: City people try...

Edward Hoagland: City people try...

City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both...

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P G Wodehouse: Chumps always make...

P G Wodehouse: Chumps always make...

Chumps always make the best husbands. When you marry, Sally, grab a chump. Tap his forehead first, and if it rings...

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Richard Bach: What the caterpillar...

Richard Bach: What the caterpillar...

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.

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Edward Westcott: If I've done...

Edward Westcott: If I've done...

If I've done anything I'm sorry for, I'm willing to be forgiven.

Source: In Rand...

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