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Helen Hunt Jackson: There is nothing...

Helen Hunt Jackson: There is nothing...

There is nothing so skillful in its own defense as imperious pride.

Source: Ramona...

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Djuna Barnes: To love without...

Djuna Barnes: To love without...

To love without criticism is to be betrayed.

Source: Nightwood, 1937.
-- Djuna...

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Marguerite Yourcenar: The memory of...

Marguerite Yourcenar: The memory of...

The memory of most men is an abandoned cemetery where lie, unsung and unhonored, the dead whom they have ceased to...

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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: It is not...

P G Wodehouse: It is not...

It is not mere technical skill that makes a man a golfer, it is the golfing soul.

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Christopher Morley: If you have...

Christopher Morley: If you have...

If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isn't so.

Source:...

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Mark Twain: Always do right;...

Mark Twain: Always do right;...

Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

Source: In...

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Don Delillo: I think it's...

Don Delillo: I think it's...

I think it's only in a crisis that Americans see other people. It has to be an American crisis, of course. If two...

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Lawrence Durrell: For us artists...

Lawrence Durrell: For us artists...

For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in...

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Joyce Cary: Remember I'm an...

Joyce Cary: Remember I'm an...

Remember I'm an artist. And you know what that means in a court of law. Next worst to an...

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Richard Bach: Your friends will...

Richard Bach: Your friends will...

Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand...

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Stendhal: Only great minds...

Stendhal: Only great minds...

Only great minds can afford a simple style.

Source: Fragments, 28.
-- Stendhal,...

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Sholem Asch: An illness is...

Sholem Asch: An illness is...

An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so remote...

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Frank Norris: The function of...

Frank Norris: The function of...

The function of the novelist . . . is to comment upon life as he sees it.

Source:...

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Jane Austen: To sit in...

Jane Austen: To sit in...

To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.

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Jane Austen: Everything nourishes what...

Jane Austen: Everything nourishes what...

Everything nourishes what is strong already.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Peter Abrahams: You can't walk...

Peter Abrahams: You can't walk...

You can't walk alone, Many have given the illusion but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each...

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Dinah Mulock Craik: It seems as...

Dinah Mulock Craik: It seems as...

It seems as if she had given these treasures and left him alone -- to use them, or lose them, apply them, or misapply...

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Dorothy Miller Richardson: If there was...

Dorothy Miller Richardson: If there was...

If there was a trick, there must be a trickster.

Source: Pilgrimage, Vol. 11, Ch....

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