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Elias Canetti: Success listens only...

Elias Canetti: Success listens only...

Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Aesop: Outside show is...

Aesop: Outside show is...

Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Pearl Buck: In this unbelievable...

Pearl Buck: In this unbelievable...

In this unbelievable universe in which we live, there are no absolutes. Even parallel lines, reaching into infinity,...

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Elizabeth Bowen: I suppose art...

Elizabeth Bowen: I suppose art...

I suppose art is the only thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.

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Gertrude Stein: Literature -- creative...

Gertrude Stein: Literature -- creative...

Literature -- creative literature -- unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable.

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Gertrude Stein: Money is always...

Gertrude Stein: Money is always...

Money is always there, but the pockets change.

Source: The Practical Cogitator,...

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Jessamyn West: Teaching is the...

Jessamyn West: Teaching is the...

Teaching is the royal road to learning.

Source: In Words of Women Quotations for...

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Jerome K Jerome: I want a...

Jerome K Jerome: I want a...

I want a house that has got over all its troubles; I don't want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and...

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Jerome K Jerome: The weather is...

Jerome K Jerome: The weather is...

The weather is like the government, always in the wrong.

Source: Idle Thoughts of...

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Jerome K Jerome: If you are...

Jerome K Jerome: If you are...

If you are foolish enough to be contented, don't show it, but grumble with the rest.

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Ralph Ellison: America is woven...

Ralph Ellison: America is woven...

America is woven of many strands. I would recognize them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet...

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Mary Wortley Montagu: It is eleven...

Mary Wortley Montagu: It is eleven...

It is eleven years since I have seen my figure in a glass. The last reflection I saw there was so disagreeable, I...

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Honore de Balzac: It is easier...

Honore de Balzac: It is easier...

It is easier to be a lover than a husband, for the same reason that it is more difficult to show a ready wit all day...

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Honore de Balzac: I should like...

Honore de Balzac: I should like...

I should like one of these days to be so well known, so popular, so celebrated, so famous, that it would permit me . ....

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Honore de Balzac: Passion is universal...

Honore de Balzac: Passion is universal...

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be...

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Honore de Balzac: All humanity is...

Honore de Balzac: All humanity is...

All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be...

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Honore de Balzac: In diving to...

Honore de Balzac: In diving to...

In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.

Source: In...

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Honore de Balzac: Bureaucracy is a...

Honore de Balzac: Bureaucracy is a...

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Honore de Balzac: We exaggerate misfortune...

Honore de Balzac: We exaggerate misfortune...

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we...

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Natalie Clifford Barney: Would that well-thinking...

Natalie Clifford Barney: Would that well-thinking...

Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones.

Source: in...

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