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Lawrence Durrell: Truth disappears with...

Lawrence Durrell: Truth disappears with...

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase,...

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Umberto Eco: The good of...

Umberto Eco: The good of...

The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn...

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E M Forster: Only connect the...

E M Forster: Only connect the...

Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in...

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E M Forster: One always tends...

E M Forster: One always tends...

One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

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Charles Dickens: Oh! I know...

Charles Dickens: Oh! I know...

Oh! I know their tricks and their manners.

Source: (Fanny Cleaver) Our Mutual...

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Joyce Cary: Religion is organized...

Joyce Cary: Religion is organized...

Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul -- politics does the same thing for the...

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Umberto Eco: A dream is...

Umberto Eco: A dream is...

A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.

Source: Brother...

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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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Horace Walpole: Imagination was given...

Horace Walpole: Imagination was given...

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for...

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Leo Tolstoy: True science investigates...

Leo Tolstoy: True science investigates...

True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time...

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Enid Bagnold: The great and...

Enid Bagnold: The great and...

The great and terrible step was taken. What else could you expect from a girl so expectant? 'Sex,' said Frank Harris,...

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Ben Hecht: Trying to determine...

Ben Hecht: Trying to determine...

Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching...

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Ben Hecht: I discovered early...

Ben Hecht: I discovered early...

I discovered early in my movie work that a movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it. There...

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Publilius Syrus: In quarreling the...

Publilius Syrus: In quarreling the...

In quarreling the truth is always lost.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Dorothy Gilman: The best things...

Dorothy Gilman: The best things...

The best things arrive on time.

Source: A New Kind of Country, 1978.
-- Dorothy...

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Jean Toomer: Men try to...

Jean Toomer: Men try to...

Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.

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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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Mark Twain: What a man...

Mark Twain: What a man...

What a man misses mostly in heaven is company.

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-- Mark Twain, (Nov 30...

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Mark Twain: When you cannot...

Mark Twain: When you cannot...

When you cannot get a compliment in any other way pay yourself one.

Source: In The...

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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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