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Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Literature that is...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Literature that is...

Literature that is not the breath of contemporary society, that dares not transmit the pains and fears of that society...

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Thomas Wolfe: The notion that...

Thomas Wolfe: The notion that...

The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed...

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Richard Bach: Do you know...

Richard Bach: Do you know...

Do you know what I learned from you? I learned what is possible, and now I must hold out for what I thought we...

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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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Mark Twain: I did not...

Mark Twain: I did not...

I did not attend his funeral; but I wrote a nice letter saying I approved of it.

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Mark Twain: Often, the less...

Mark Twain: Often, the less...

Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of...

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Mark Twain: Necessity is the...

Mark Twain: Necessity is the...

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

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-- Mark Twain, (Nov 30...

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Mark Twain: The man who...

Mark Twain: The man who...

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.

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Mark Twain: A man who...

Mark Twain: A man who...

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

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George Eliot: Failure after long...

George Eliot: Failure after long...

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a...

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George Eliot: The sons of...

George Eliot: The sons of...

The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice,...

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Charles Dickens: Let us be...

Charles Dickens: Let us be...

Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.

Source: Martin Chuzzlewit, Ch....

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Louisa May Alcott: My definition [of...

Louisa May Alcott: My definition [of...

My definition [of a philosopher] is a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which confine...

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George Eliot: Among all forms...

George Eliot: Among all forms...

Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous.

Source: Middlemarch,...

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George Eliot: The only failure...

George Eliot: The only failure...

The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be...

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E M Forster: At night, when...

E M Forster: At night, when...

At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: We operate with...

Friedrich Nietzsche: We operate with...

We operate with nothing but things which do not exist, with lines, planes, bodies, atoms, divisible time, divisible...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: To exercise power...

Friedrich Nietzsche: To exercise power...

To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are...

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Doug Horton: First rule of...

Doug Horton: First rule of...

First rule of Economics 101: our desires are insatiable. Second rule: we can stomach only three Big Macs at a...

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Doug Horton: Growing old is...

Doug Horton: Growing old is...

Growing old is not growing up.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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