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Israel Zangwill: The only true...

Israel Zangwill: The only true...

The only true love is love at first sight; second sight dispels it.

Source: In The...

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Israel Zangwill: In how many...

Israel Zangwill: In how many...

In how many lives does love really play a dominant part? The average taxpayer is no more capable of the grand passion...

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Remy de Gourmont: In order to...

Remy de Gourmont: In order to...

In order to understand life it is not only necessary not to be indifferent to men, but not to be indifferent to...

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Oswald Spengler: I maintain that...

Oswald Spengler: I maintain that...

I maintain that today many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher than all those who...

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Alan W Watts: The only way...

Alan W Watts: The only way...

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the...

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Henri Bergson: Art has no...

Henri Bergson: Art has no...

Art has no other object than to set aside the symbols of practical utility, the generalities that are conventionally...

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Charles W Chesnutt: The workings of...

Charles W Chesnutt: The workings of...

The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe. One moment they make us despair of our...

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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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Jean Toomer: A visit to...

Jean Toomer: A visit to...

A visit to Georgia last fall was the starting point of almost everything of worth that I have done. I saw lhe rich...

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Rachel Field: I've seen public...

Rachel Field: I've seen public...

I've seen public opinion shift like the wind and put out the very fire it lighted.

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Katherine Paterson: The name we...

Katherine Paterson: The name we...

The name we give to something shapes our attitude toward it.

Source: In Words of...

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Jean Genet: To achieve harmony...

Jean Genet: To achieve harmony...

To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.

Source: The Thief's...

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J P Donleavy: Writing is turning...

J P Donleavy: Writing is turning...

Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.

Source: Playboy (Chicago, May...

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Henry Miller: I didn't have...

Henry Miller: I didn't have...

I didn't have to think up so much as a comma or a semicolon; it was all given, straight from the celestial recording...

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Frank Norris: The People have...

Frank Norris: The People have...

The People have a right to the Truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of...

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Djuna Barnes: Life, the permission...

Djuna Barnes: Life, the permission...

Life, the permission to know death.

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

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S J Perelman: I've got Bright's...

S J Perelman: I've got Bright's...

I've got Bright's disease and he's got mine.

Source: Attributed.
-- S J...

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Jack London: Everything is good...

Jack London: Everything is good...

Everything is good . . . as long as it is unpossessed. Satiety and possession are Death's horses; they run in...

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Arnold Bennett: There can be...

Arnold Bennett: There can be...

There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not...

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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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