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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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Lawrence Durrell: It's only with...

Lawrence Durrell: It's only with...

It's only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdry that you can get...

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Don Delillo: Californians invented the...

Don Delillo: Californians invented the...

Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.

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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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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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Charles Dickens: As she frequently...

Charles Dickens: As she frequently...

As she frequently remarked when she made any such mistake, it would be all the same a hundred years...

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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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G K Chesterton: The whole difference...

G K Chesterton: The whole difference...

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved...

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G K Chesterton: A turkey is...

G K Chesterton: A turkey is...

A turkey is more occult and awful than all the angels and archangels. In so far as God has partly revealed to us an...

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G K Chesterton: The lunatic is...

G K Chesterton: The lunatic is...

The lunatic is the man who lives in a small world but thinks it is a large one; he is the man who lives in a tenth of...

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G K Chesterton: A man who...

G K Chesterton: A man who...

A man who has faith must be prepared not only to be a martyr, but to be a fool.

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Shirley Hazzard: It's a nervous...

Shirley Hazzard: It's a nervous...

It's a nervous work. The state that you need to write is the state that others are paying large sums to get rid...

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Edna Ferber: I think that...

Edna Ferber: I think that...

I think that in order to write really well and convincingly, one must he somewhat poisoned by emotion. Dislike,...

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Anthony Burgess: Americans will listen,...

Anthony Burgess: Americans will listen,...

Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which...

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George Ade: To insure peace...

George Ade: To insure peace...

To insure peace of mind ignore the rules and regulations.

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Frederick Douglass: A gentleman will...

Frederick Douglass: A gentleman will...

A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.

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Dorothy Gilman: But she knew...

Dorothy Gilman: But she knew...

But she knew that she had encountered one of the more devastating kinds of loneliness in existence: that of being in...

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Winston Churchill: The only guide...

Winston Churchill: The only guide...

The only guide to a man is his conscience; the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his...

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Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev: Whatever else may...

Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev: Whatever else may...

Whatever else may divide us, Europe is our common home; a common fate has linked us through the centuries, and it...

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Constantine Karamanlis: We are given...

Constantine Karamanlis: We are given...

We are given to the cult of personality; when things go badly we look to some messiah to save us. . . . If by chance...

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