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Charles Dickens: It was a...

Charles Dickens: It was a...

It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's...

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Mark Twain: There was never...

Mark Twain: There was never...

There was never a century nor a country that was short of experts who knew the Deity's mind and were willing to reveal...

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Mark Twain: Truth is mighty...

Mark Twain: Truth is mighty...

Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing the matter with this, except that it ain't...

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Margaret Atwood: We thought we...

Margaret Atwood: We thought we...

We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups.

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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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George Eliot: How could a...

George Eliot: How could a...

How could a man be satisfied with a decision between such alternatives and under such circumstances? No more than he...

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn: I am of...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: I am of...

I am of course confident that I will fulfill my tasks as a writer in all circumstances -- from my grave even more...

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn: The sole substitute...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: The sole substitute...

The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and...

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Literature becomes the...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Literature becomes the...

Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

Source: Speech, 1972.
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James Thurber: Laughter need not...

James Thurber: Laughter need not...

Laughter need not be cut out of anything, since it improves everything.

Source: On...

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Mark Twain: Adam was the...

Mark Twain: Adam was the...

Adam was the only man who, when he said a good thing, knew that nobody had said it before...

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Mark Twain: We owe a...

Mark Twain: We owe a...

We owe a deep debt of gratitude to Adam, the first great benefactor of the human race: he brought death into the...

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G K Chesterton: The cosmos is...

G K Chesterton: The cosmos is...

The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.

Source:...

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G K Chesterton: I've searched all...

G K Chesterton: I've searched all...

I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees.

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G K Chesterton: Evil comes at...

G K Chesterton: Evil comes at...

Evil comes at leisure like the disease; good comes in a hurry like the doctor.

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G K Chesterton: All architecture is...

G K Chesterton: All architecture is...

All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of...

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E B White: I see nothing...

E B White: I see nothing...

I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.

Source: In The...

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E M Forster: The most successful...

E M Forster: The most successful...

The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful...

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn: A great writer...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: A great writer...

A great writer is, so to speak, a second government in his country. And for that reason no regime has ever loved great...

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Mark Twain: Cauliflower is nothing...

Mark Twain: Cauliflower is nothing...

Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Source: Pudd'nhead...

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