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Lois McMaster Bujold: I am who...

Lois McMaster Bujold: I am who...

I am who I choose to be. I always have been what I chose?though not always what I pleased....

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Milan Kundera: No great movement...

Milan Kundera: No great movement...

No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes...

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Margaret Atwood: . . ....

Margaret Atwood: . . ....

. . . time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee. . . . I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the...

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Margaret Atwood: A word after...

Margaret Atwood: A word after...

A word after a word after a word is power.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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P G Wodehouse: I pressed down...

P G Wodehouse: I pressed down...

I pressed down the mental accelerator. The old lemon throbbed fiercely. I got an idea.

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Jean Paul: No one is...

Jean Paul: No one is...

No one is more profoundly sad as one who laughs too much.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Jean Paul: Cares are often...

Jean Paul: Cares are often...

Cares are often more difficult to throw off than sorrows; the latter die with time, the former...

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Jean Paul: The timid are...

Jean Paul: The timid are...

The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after...

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P G Wodehouse: It was my...

P G Wodehouse: It was my...

It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical...

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James Thurber: You might as...

James Thurber: You might as...

You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.

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James Thurber: Boys are beyond...

James Thurber: Boys are beyond...

Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90...

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James Thurber: With 60 staring...

James Thurber: With 60 staring...

With 60 staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and a definite hardening of...

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Christopher Morley: Read, every day,...

Christopher Morley: Read, every day,...

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day,...

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Christopher Morley: From now until...

Christopher Morley: From now until...

From now until the end of time no one else will ever see life with my eyes, and I mean to make the best of my...

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Christopher Morley: People like to...

Christopher Morley: People like to...

People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster,...

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Richard Bach: Your only obligation...

Richard Bach: Your only obligation...

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only...

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Mary McCarthy: There are no...

Mary McCarthy: There are no...

There are no new truths, but only truths that have not been recognized by those who have perceived them without...

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Anthony Burgess: Bath twice a...

Anthony Burgess: Bath twice a...

Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a public...

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Charles Dickens: Change begets change....

Charles Dickens: Change begets change....

Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast.

Source: Martin Chuzzlewit, ch....

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Charles Dickens: Circumstances beyond my...

Charles Dickens: Circumstances beyond my...

Circumstances beyond my individual control.

Source: (Mr Micawber) David...

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