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Annie Dillard: Spend the afternoon....

Annie Dillard: Spend the afternoon....

Spend the afternoon. You can't take it with you.

Source: From Charles Daney's...

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Harriet Beecher Stowe: These words dropped...

Harriet Beecher Stowe: These words dropped...

These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think...

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Mary Wortley Montagu: Life is too...

Mary Wortley Montagu: Life is too...

Life is too short for a long story.

Source: Letter, 19 Jul 1759; in Selected...

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Anthony Burgess: Death comes along...

Anthony Burgess: Death comes along...

Death comes along like a gas bill one can't pay.

Source: From Rand Lindsly's HUGE...

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Charles Dickens: I only ask...

Charles Dickens: I only ask...

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.

Source: 'Bleak House'
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Charles Dickens: He [Mr Turveydrop]...

Charles Dickens: He [Mr Turveydrop]...

He [Mr Turveydrop] is celebrated almost everywhere, for his Deportment.

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Charles Dickens: Take a little...

Charles Dickens: Take a little...

Take a little time - count five-and-twenty, Tattycoram.

Source: (Mr Meagles) Little...

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Charles Dickens: I'm Gormed -...

Charles Dickens: I'm Gormed -...

I'm Gormed - and I can't say no fairer than that!

Source: (Mr Peggotty) David...

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Charles Dickens: Battledore and shuttlecock's...

Charles Dickens: Battledore and shuttlecock's...

Battledore and shuttlecock's a wery good game, vhen you an't the shuttlecock and two lawyers the battledores, in which...

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Lois McMaster Bujold: If you can't...

Lois McMaster Bujold: If you can't...

If you can't do what you want, do what you can.

Source: In Collection of 10,000...

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Mark Twain: There is no...

Mark Twain: There is no...

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist.

Source:...

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Mark Twain: All say, `How...

Mark Twain: All say, `How...

All say, `How hard it is to die' - a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to...

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Mark Twain: Fiction is obliged...

Mark Twain: Fiction is obliged...

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.

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-- Mark...

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Charles Dickens: It opens the...

Charles Dickens: It opens the...

It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry...

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James Thurber: It had only...

James Thurber: It had only...

It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.

Source: When asked his opinion of a...

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James Thurber: Get it right...

James Thurber: Get it right...

Get it right or let it alone. The conclusion you jump to may be your own.

Source:...

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Mark Twain: Only kings, editors,...

Mark Twain: Only kings, editors,...

Only kings, editors, and people with tapeworm have the right to use the editorial we.

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Mark Twain: Of all God's...

Mark Twain: Of all God's...

Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man...

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Salman Rushdie: If Woody Allen...

Salman Rushdie: If Woody Allen...

If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.

Source: On the anger and death...

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George Eliot: There are glances...

George Eliot: There are glances...

There are glances of hatred that stab, and raise no cry of murder.

Source: Felix...

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