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Charles Dickens: There is a...

Charles Dickens: There is a...

There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast.

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Charles Dickens: No man ever...

Charles Dickens: No man ever...

No man ever walked down to posterity with so small a book under his arm.

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George Eliot: No great deed...

George Eliot: No great deed...

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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G K Chesterton: Once I planned...

G K Chesterton: Once I planned...

Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and...

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Madeleine L'Engle: With each book...

Madeleine L'Engle: With each book...

With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that [the books] have a life of their own, quite apart from...

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Louisa May Alcott: I am not...

Louisa May Alcott: I am not...

I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.

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George Eliot: Speech is often...

George Eliot: Speech is often...

Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you...

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George Eliot: The law and...

George Eliot: The law and...

The law and medicine should be very serious professions to undertake, should they not? People's lives and fortunes...

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George Eliot: Cruelty, like every...

George Eliot: Cruelty, like every...

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires...

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Mark Twain: A big leather-bound...

Mark Twain: A big leather-bound...

A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thin book is useful to stick under a table with a broken...

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Mark Twain: Don't part with...

Mark Twain: Don't part with...

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: As there is...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: As there is...

As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Every fact is...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Every fact is...

Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Only an inventor...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Only an inventor...

Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Talent alone cannot...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Talent alone cannot...

Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book; a personality which, by birth and quality, is...

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Henry Ward Beecher: All ambitions are...

Henry Ward Beecher: All ambitions are...

All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of...

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Henry Ward Beecher: It is defeat...

Henry Ward Beecher: It is defeat...

It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men...

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Djuna Barnes: An image is...

Djuna Barnes: An image is...

An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties.

Source: Nightwood,...

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John Steinbeck: In utter loneliness...

John Steinbeck: In utter loneliness...

In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.

Source: In diary...

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George Eliot: When we get...

George Eliot: When we get...

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and...

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