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Salman Rushdie: Writers and politicians...

Salman Rushdie: Writers and politicians...

Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the...

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Louisa May Alcott: All is fish...

Louisa May Alcott: All is fish...

All is fish that comes to the literary net. Goethe puts his joys and sorrows into poems, I turn my adventures into...

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Marquis de Sade: Miserable creatures, thrown...

Marquis de Sade: Miserable creatures, thrown...

Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one half of the...

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Graham Henry Greene: Failure too is...

Graham Henry Greene: Failure too is...

Failure too is a form of death. . .

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Joseph Heller: Like Olympic medals...

Joseph Heller: Like Olympic medals...

Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to...

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Peter De Vries: I wanted to...

Peter De Vries: I wanted to...

I wanted to be bored to death, as good a way to go as any.

Source: Comfort me with...

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn: No one can...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: No one can...

No one can bar the road to truth, and to advance its cause I am prepared to accept even death. But may it be that...

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Jane Austen: Happiness in marriage...

Jane Austen: Happiness in marriage...

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

Source: Pride & Prejudice/...

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Charles Dickens: We cannot have...

Charles Dickens: We cannot have...

We cannot have single gentlemen to come into this establishment and sleep like double gentlemen without paying extra...

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Charles Dickens: A Being, erect...

Charles Dickens: A Being, erect...

A Being, erect upon two legs, and bearing all the outward semblance of a man, and not of a...

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Charles Dickens: It is sometimes...

Charles Dickens: It is sometimes...

It is sometimes called the City of Magnificent Distances, but it might with greater propriety be termed the City of...

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Mark Twain: One of the...

Mark Twain: One of the...

One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that the cat has only nine...

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Mark Twain: Prosperity is the...

Mark Twain: Prosperity is the...

Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know.

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-- Mark Twain,...

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Honore de Balzac: No man should...

Honore de Balzac: No man should...

No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.

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G K Chesterton: Without education, we...

G K Chesterton: Without education, we...

Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people...

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G K Chesterton: The Museum is...

G K Chesterton: The Museum is...

The Museum is not meant for the wanderer to see by accident or for the pilgrim to see with awe. It is meant for the...

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G K Chesterton: All good men...

G K Chesterton: All good men...

All good men are international. Nearly all bad men are cosmopolitan. If we are to be international we must be...

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G K Chesterton: Architecture is the...

G K Chesterton: Architecture is the...

Architecture is the alphabet of giants; it is the largest set of symbols ever made to meet the eyes of...

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G K Chesterton: The artistic temperament...

G K Chesterton: The artistic temperament...

The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. . . . Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid...

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G K Chesterton: Materialists and madmen...

G K Chesterton: Materialists and madmen...

Materialists and madmen never have doubts.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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