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George Eliot: Certainly, the mistakes...

George Eliot: Certainly, the mistakes...

Certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder...

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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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Edward Dahlberg: One of the...

Edward Dahlberg: One of the...

One of the weaknesses in the cooperative is that it has never been sufficiently leavened by the imagination. This is a...

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Edward Dahlberg: Genius, like truth,...

Edward Dahlberg: Genius, like truth,...

Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien.

Source: Alms for Oblivion, ...

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Edward Dahlberg: Hardly a book...

Edward Dahlberg: Hardly a book...

Hardly a book of human worth, be it heaven's own secret, is honestly placed before the reader; it is either shunned,...

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Edward Dahlberg: Recognise the cunning...

Edward Dahlberg: Recognise the cunning...

Recognise the cunning man not by the corpses he pays homage to but by the living writers he conspires against with the...

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Charles Dickens: Look here. Upon...

Charles Dickens: Look here. Upon...

Look here. Upon my soul you mustn't come into the place saying you want to know, you know.

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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: Ain't I volatile?...

Charles Dickens: Ain't I volatile?...

Ain't I volatile?

Source: (Miss Mowcher) David Copperfield, Ch. 22
-- Charles...

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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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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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G K Chesterton: Lying in bed...

G K Chesterton: Lying in bed...

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a coloured pencil long enough to...

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G K Chesterton: Tea, although an...

G K Chesterton: Tea, although an...

Tea, although an Oriental,
Is a gentleman at least;
Cocoa is a cad and coward,
Cocoa is a vulgar...

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G K Chesterton: The only way...

G K Chesterton: The only way...

The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before.

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James Thurber: There are two...

James Thurber: There are two...

There are two kinds of light -- the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures.

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