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Jane Austen: The pleasantness of...

Jane Austen: The pleasantness of...

The pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

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Jane Austen: There is safety...

Jane Austen: There is safety...

There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.

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Jane Austen: The sooner every...

Jane Austen: The sooner every...

The sooner every party breaks up the better.

Source: Emma, Ch. 25
-- Jane...

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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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Richard Bach: The way to...

Richard Bach: The way to...

The way to avoid responsibility is to say, I've got responsibilities.

Source: In...

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Richard Bach: That's what learning...

Richard Bach: That's what learning...

That's what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed because of it...

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G K Chesterton: They have given...

G K Chesterton: They have given...

They have given us into the hand of new unhappy lords,
Lords without anger and honour, who dare not carry their...

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G K Chesterton: The chief assertion...

G K Chesterton: The chief assertion...

The chief assertion of religious morality is that white is a colour. Virtue is not the absence of vices or the...

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E B White: I have occasionally...

E B White: I have occasionally...

I have occasionally had the exquisite thrill of putting my finger on a little capsule of truth, and heard it give a...

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Richard Bach: The way to...

Richard Bach: The way to...

The way to avoid responsibility is to say, I've got responsibilities.

Source: In...

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Aldous Huxley: The investigation of...

Aldous Huxley: The investigation of...

The investigation of nature is an infinite pasture-ground where all may graze, and where the more bite, the longer the...

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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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Edward Dahlberg: Look at this...

Edward Dahlberg: Look at this...

Look at this poet William Carlos Williams: he is primitive and native, and his roots are in raw forest and violent...

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Charles Dickens: He had but...

Charles Dickens: He had but...

He had but one eye and the popular prejudice runs in favour of two.

Source: (Mr...

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Charles Dickens: Can I unmoved...

Charles Dickens: Can I unmoved...

Can I unmoved see thee dying
On a log,
Expiring frog!


Source: (Mrs Leo...

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Charles Dickens: A boy's story...

Charles Dickens: A boy's story...

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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John Steinbeck: Give a critic...

John Steinbeck: Give a critic...

Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.

Source: Writers at Work, On Critics,...

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Marguerite Duras: Nowhere is one...

Marguerite Duras: Nowhere is one...

Nowhere is one more alone than in Paris. . . and yet surrounded by crowds. Nowhere is one more likely to incur greater...

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Milan Kundera: I think, therefore...

Milan Kundera: I think, therefore...

I think, therefore I am is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.

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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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