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Christopher Morley: There is only...

Christopher Morley: There is only...

There is only one success -- to be able to spend your life in your own way.

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Christopher Morley: Heaven is not...

Christopher Morley: Heaven is not...

Heaven is not built of country seats
But little queer suburban streets.


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E M Forster: Railway termini. ....

E M Forster: Railway termini. ....

Railway termini. . . are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and...

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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: If you're going...

Madeleine L'Engle: If you're going...

If you're going to care about the fall of the sparrow you can't pick and choose who's going to be the...

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Salman Rushdie: I hate admitting...

Salman Rushdie: I hate admitting...

I hate admitting that my enemies have a point.

Source: Hamza, in The Satanic...

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Evelyn Waugh: I'm one of...

Evelyn Waugh: I'm one of...

I'm one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.

Source: Decline and...

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Evelyn Waugh: We class schools...

Evelyn Waugh: We class schools...

We class schools you see, into four grades: Leading School, First-rate School, Good School, and...

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Louisa May Alcott: Have regular hours...

Louisa May Alcott: Have regular hours...

Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth...

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John Fowles: There are only...

John Fowles: There are only...

There are only two races on this planet -- the intelligent and the stupid.

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Lois McMaster Bujold: The will to...

Lois McMaster Bujold: The will to...

The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives.

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George Eliot: But that intimacy...

George Eliot: But that intimacy...

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once...

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George Eliot: With memory set...

George Eliot: With memory set...

With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of...

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George Eliot: Gossip is a...

George Eliot: Gossip is a...

Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the...

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George Eliot: Of a truth,...

George Eliot: Of a truth,...

Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may...

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George Eliot: And when a...

George Eliot: And when a...

And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be...

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George Eliot: It is never...

George Eliot: It is never...

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Source: In The World's Best...

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George Eliot: You may try...

George Eliot: You may try...

You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of...

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George Eliot: Cruelty, like every...

George Eliot: Cruelty, like every...

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires...

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Their teacher had...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Their teacher had...

Their teacher had advised them not to read Tolstoy novels, because they were very long and would easily confuse the...

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