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Richard Bach: Sooner or later,...

Richard Bach: Sooner or later,...

Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.

Source: In The...

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E M Forster: At night, when...

E M Forster: At night, when...

At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective...

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E M Forster: The traveller who...

E M Forster: The traveller who...

The traveller who has gone to Italy to study the tactile values of Giotto, or the corruption of the Papacy, may return...

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Madeleine L'Engle: When the bright...

Madeleine L'Engle: When the bright...

When the bright angel [of creativity] dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven...

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Madeleine L'Engle: Truth is eternal,...

Madeleine L'Engle: Truth is eternal,...

Truth is eternal, knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them.

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Salman Rushdie: Literature is where...

Salman Rushdie: Literature is where...

Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I...

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Salman Rushdie: In this world...

Salman Rushdie: In this world...

In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible,...

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Evelyn Waugh: I think to...

Evelyn Waugh: I think to...

I think to be oversensitive about clich?s is like being oversensitive about table manners.

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Louisa May Alcott: Fame is a...

Louisa May Alcott: Fame is a...

Fame is a pearl many dive for and only a few bring up. Even when they do, it is not perfect, and they sigh for more,...

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John Fowles: That is the...

John Fowles: That is the...

That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women see the relationships between...

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John Fowles: Our accepting what...

John Fowles: Our accepting what...

Our accepting what we are must always inhibit our being what we ought to be.

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Graham Henry Greene: He entered the...

Graham Henry Greene: He entered the...

He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.

Source: The Heart...

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Lois McMaster Bujold: A weapon is...

Lois McMaster Bujold: A weapon is...

A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.

Source: In Collection...

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George Eliot: The scornful nostril...

George Eliot: The scornful nostril...

The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of...

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George Eliot: For what is...

George Eliot: For what is...

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any...

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Evelyn Waugh: Particularly against books...

Evelyn Waugh: Particularly against books...

Particularly against books the Home Secretary is. If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least...

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Mark Twain: Virtue has never...

Mark Twain: Virtue has never...

Virtue has never been as respectable as money.

Source:
-- Mark Twain, (Nov 30...

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Marguerite Duras: Men like women...

Marguerite Duras: Men like women...

Men like women who write. Even though they don't say so. A writer is a foreign country.

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Milan Kundera: A novel that...

Milan Kundera: A novel that...

A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only...

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Margaret Atwood: The Eskimos had...

Margaret Atwood: The Eskimos had...

The Eskimos had 52 names for snow because it was important to them; there ought to be as many for...

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