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Evelyn Waugh: Don't give your...

Evelyn Waugh: Don't give your...

Don't give your opinions about Art and the Purpose of Life. They are of little interest and, anyway, you can't...

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Evelyn Waugh: Punctuality is the...

Evelyn Waugh: Punctuality is the...

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

Source: The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh, 26 Mar...

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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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John Fowles: You are like...

John Fowles: You are like...

You are like a porcupine. When the animal has its spines erect, it cannot eat. If you do not eat, you will starve. And...

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Marquis de Sade: Never lose sight...

Marquis de Sade: Never lose sight...

Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it...

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Marquis de Sade: For mortal men...

Marquis de Sade: For mortal men...

For mortal men there is but one hell, and that is the folly and wickedness and spite of his fellows; but once his life...

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn: The line separating...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: The line separating...

The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between political parties either -- but right through...

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn: When truth is...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: When truth is...

When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of it attractiveness.

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Jane Austen: A large income...

Jane Austen: A large income...

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

Source: In The...

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Jane Austen: It may be...

Jane Austen: It may be...

It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing many, many...

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Jane Austen: Surprises are foolish...

Jane Austen: Surprises are foolish...

Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced and the inconvenience is often...

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Jane Austen: The post-office had...

Jane Austen: The post-office had...

The post-office had a great charm at one period of our lives. When you have lived to my age, you will begin to think...

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Douglas Adams: In the beginning...

Douglas Adams: In the beginning...

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a...

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Richard Bach: I want to...

Richard Bach: I want to...

I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way about me. That or...

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John Steinbeck: A journey is...

John Steinbeck: A journey is...

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

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Salman Rushdie: A book is...

Salman Rushdie: A book is...

A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in...

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Marquis de Sade: Nature, who for...

Marquis de Sade: Nature, who for...

Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and...

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Mark Twain: Between us, we...

Mark Twain: Between us, we...

Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest.

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Mark Twain: A coin, sleeve...

Mark Twain: A coin, sleeve...

A coin, sleeve button, or a collar button dropped in a bedroom will hide itself and be hard to find. A handkerchief in...

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Mark Twain: Annihilation has no...

Mark Twain: Annihilation has no...

Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born -- a hundred million years --...

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