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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: The bearings of...

Charles Dickens: The bearings of...

The bearings of this observation lays in the application on it.

Source: (Bunsby)...

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Charles Dickens: There's light enough...

Charles Dickens: There's light enough...

There's light enough for what I've got to do.

Source: (Bill Sikes) Oliver Twist,...

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Charles Dickens: I've a pretty...

Charles Dickens: I've a pretty...

I've a pretty large experience of boys, and you're a bad set of fellows. Now mind . . . you behave yourself...

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Charles Dickens: There might be...

Charles Dickens: There might be...

There might be some credit in being jolly.

Source: (Mark Tapley) Martin Chuzzlewit,...

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Charles Dickens: Papa, potatoes, poultry,...

Charles Dickens: Papa, potatoes, poultry,...

Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips; especially prunes and...

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Charles Dickens: She's a swellin'...

Charles Dickens: She's a swellin'...

She's a swellin' wisibly before my wery eyes.

Source: (Mr Weller) Pickwick Papers,...

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Charles Dickens: It's calm and...

Charles Dickens: It's calm and...

It's calm and - what's that word again - critical! - no - classical, that's it - it is calm and...

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Charles Dickens: Literature should stand...

Charles Dickens: Literature should stand...

Literature should stand by itself, of itself, and for itself.

Source: In Webster's...

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Charles Dickens: It was not...

Charles Dickens: It was not...

It was not a bosom to repose upon, but it was a capital bosom to hang jewels upon.

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Charles Dickens: A loving heart...

Charles Dickens: A loving heart...

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Marguerite Duras: Acting doesn't bring...

Marguerite Duras: Acting doesn't bring...

Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it.

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Milan Kundera: Optimism is the...

Milan Kundera: Optimism is the...

Optimism is the opium of the people.

Source: The Joke, pt. 3, ch. 3 (1967; tr....

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Milan Kundera: Let us consider...

Milan Kundera: Let us consider...

Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries.

Source: On...

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Boris Pasternak: That's metaphysics, my...

Boris Pasternak: That's metaphysics, my...

That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take...

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Boris Pasternak: Immensely grateful, touched,...

Boris Pasternak: Immensely grateful, touched,...

Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.

Source: Telegram accepting...

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Margaret Atwood: Because I am...

Margaret Atwood: Because I am...

Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one.

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Margaret Atwood: A divorce is...

Margaret Atwood: A divorce is...

A divorce is like an amputation; you survive, but there's less of you.

Source: In...

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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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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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