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Chuang-tzu: Rewards and punishments...

Chuang-tzu: Rewards and punishments...

Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.

Source: In Collection of...

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David Livingstone: Fear God and...

David Livingstone: Fear God and...

Fear God and work hard.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations Library,...

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Israel Zangwill: Editors are constantly...

Israel Zangwill: Editors are constantly...

Editors are constantly on the watch to discover new talents in old names.

Source:...

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Suzanne K Langer: A philosophy is...

Suzanne K Langer: A philosophy is...

A philosophy is characterized more by the formulation of its problems than by its solution of...

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Djuna Barnes: Dreams have only...

Djuna Barnes: Dreams have only...

Dreams have only the pigmentation of fact.

Source: Doctor, in Nightwood, ch. 5,...

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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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Marquis de Sade: Every principle is...

Marquis de Sade: Every principle is...

Every principle is a judgment, every judgment the outcome of experience, and experience is only acquired by the...

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Don Delillo: I've come to...

Don Delillo: I've come to...

I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version.

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Edna O'Brien: There is something...

Edna O'Brien: There is something...

There is something about holding on to things that I find therapeutic.

Source: The...

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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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William H Gass: The speeding reader...

William H Gass: The speeding reader...

The speeding reader guts a book the way the skillful clean fish. The gills are gone, the tail, the scales, the fins;...

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William H Gass: If you believed...

William H Gass: If you believed...

If you believed yourself to be a writer of . . . eminence, you are now assured of being over the hill not a sturdy...

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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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Enid Bagnold: If a dog...

Enid Bagnold: If a dog...

If a dog doesn't put you first where are you both? In what relation? A dog needs God. It lives by your glances, your...

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Carlos Fuentes: Perfect order is...

Carlos Fuentes: Perfect order is...

Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror.

Source: In The Book of Positive...

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Ben Hecht: Prejudice is a...

Ben Hecht: Prejudice is a...

Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.

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Thomas Carlyle: A man perfects...

Thomas Carlyle: A man perfects...

A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities;...

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Thomas Carlyle: It is a...

Thomas Carlyle: It is a...

It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like...

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Henry David Thoreau: A perfectly healthy...

Henry David Thoreau: A perfectly healthy...

A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the...

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Henry David Thoreau: The Artist is...

Henry David Thoreau: The Artist is...

The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature....

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