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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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Harry Crews: There is something...

Harry Crews: There is something...

There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed...

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Clive Barker: Be regular and...

Clive Barker: Be regular and...

Be regular and orderly in your life, that you may be violent and original in your work.

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Margaret Truman: He was prouder...

Margaret Truman: He was prouder...

He was prouder still to be a member of that even more restricted group, Uncle Sam Rayburn's Board of Education the...

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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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Edna O'Brien: I'm a tuning...

Edna O'Brien: I'm a tuning...

I'm a tuning fork, tense and twanging all the time.

Source: In An Uncommon Scold,...

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Judith Viorst: Love is much...

Judith Viorst: Love is much...

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern...

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James Agee: Children, taught either...

James Agee: Children, taught either...

Children, taught either years beneath their intelligence or miles wide of relevance to it, or both: their intelligence...

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Jack Kerouac: You can't teach...

Jack Kerouac: You can't teach...

You can't teach the old maestro a new tune.

Source: On the Road, Pt. I.
-- Jack...

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David Livingstone: I will place...

David Livingstone: I will place...

I will place no value on anything I have or may possess except in relation to the kingdom of...

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David Livingstone: I determined never...

David Livingstone: I determined never...

I determined never to stop until I had come to the end and achieved my purpose.

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Thomas Merton: Happiness is not...

Thomas Merton: Happiness is not...

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.

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William E Channing: Difficulties are meant...

William E Channing: Difficulties are meant...

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by...

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Luc De Clapiers: More are taken...

Luc De Clapiers: More are taken...

More are taken in by hope than by cunning.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Suzanne K Langer: The secret of...

Suzanne K Langer: The secret of...

The secret of fusion is the fact that the artist's eye sees in nature . . . an inexhaustible wealth of tension,...

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Henri Bergson: To perceive means...

Henri Bergson: To perceive means...

To perceive means to immobilize . . . we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception...

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Bertrand Russell: The degree of...

Bertrand Russell: The degree of...

The degree of one's emotion varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts -- the less you know the hotter you...

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Willa Cather: Art should simplify....

Willa Cather: Art should simplify....

Art should simplify. That is very nearly the whole of the higher artistic process; finding what conventions of form...

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Lao-Tzu: Govern a great...

Lao-Tzu: Govern a great...

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. (Don't overdo it.)

Source:...

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Francis H Bradley: His mind is...

Francis H Bradley: His mind is...

His mind is open; yes, it is so open that nothing is retained; ideas simply pass through...

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