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Arthur Conan Doyle: Sir Walter, with...

Arthur Conan Doyle: Sir Walter, with...

Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fortunately for the...

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Erica Jong: Fame means millions...

Erica Jong: Fame means millions...

Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.

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Erica Jong: I went for...

Erica Jong: I went for...

I went for years not finishing anything. Because, of course, when you finish something you can be judged. . . . I had...

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Edgar Watson Howe: People are always...

Edgar Watson Howe: People are always...

People are always neglecting something they can do in trying to do something they can't...

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G K Chesterton: True contentment is...

G K Chesterton: True contentment is...

True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there...

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Elias Canetti: All the things...

Elias Canetti: All the things...

All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.

Source: Die Provinz der...

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Elias Canetti: Someone who always...

Elias Canetti: Someone who always...

Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true.

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Margot Asquith: Lord Birkenhead is...

Margot Asquith: Lord Birkenhead is...

Lord Birkenhead is very clever, but sometimes his brains go to his head.

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Pearl Buck: You cannot make...

Pearl Buck: You cannot make...

You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your...

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Pearl Buck: No one really...

Pearl Buck: No one really...

No one really understood music unless he was a scientist, her father had declared, and not just a scientist, either,...

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Annie Dillard: The body of...

Annie Dillard: The body of...

The body of literature, with its limits and edges, exists outside some people and inside others. Only after the writer...

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Annie Dillard: I don't know...

Annie Dillard: I don't know...

I don't know what it is about fecundity that so appalls. I suppose it is the teeming evidence that birth and growth,...

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Annie Dillard: How we spend...

Annie Dillard: How we spend...

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

Source: The Writing...

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Gertrude Stein: A writer must...

Gertrude Stein: A writer must...

A writer must always try to have a philosophy and he should also have a psychology and a philology and many other...

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Harriet Beecher Stowe: Many a humble...

Harriet Beecher Stowe: Many a humble...

Many a humble soul will be amazed to find that the seed it sowed in weakness, in the dust of daily life, has blossomed...

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Harriet Beecher Stowe: Mothers are the...

Harriet Beecher Stowe: Mothers are the...

Mothers are the most instinctive philosophers.

Source: In Readers' Digest.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe: Women are the...

Harriet Beecher Stowe: Women are the...

Women are the real architects of society.

Source: In Atlantic Monthly, 1864.
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Jerome K Jerome: It is in...

Jerome K Jerome: It is in...

It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. . . . It is in our...

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Honore de Balzac: Nothing is a...

Honore de Balzac: Nothing is a...

Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with...

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Natalie Clifford Barney: Time engraves our...

Natalie Clifford Barney: Time engraves our...

Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.

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