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Charles Dickens: A Being, erect...

Charles Dickens: A Being, erect...

A Being, erect upon two legs, and bearing all the outward semblance of a man, and not of a...

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Charles Dickens: Oh Sairey, Sairey,...

Charles Dickens: Oh Sairey, Sairey,...

Oh Sairey, Sairey, little do we know wot lays afore us!

Source: (Mrs Gamp) Martin...

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Charles Dickens: Fan the sinking...

Charles Dickens: Fan the sinking...

Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.

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E M Forster: Beauty ought to...

E M Forster: Beauty ought to...

Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look...

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Salman Rushdie: Sometimes legends make...

Salman Rushdie: Sometimes legends make...

Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.

Source:...

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Salman Rushdie: The only privilege...

Salman Rushdie: The only privilege...

The only privilege literature deserves -- and this privilege it requires in order to exist -- is the privilege of...

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Salman Rushdie: In this world...

Salman Rushdie: In this world...

In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible,...

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Marquis de Sade: It is certain...

Marquis de Sade: It is certain...

It is certain that stealing nourishes courage, strength, skill, tact, in a word, all the virtues useful to a...

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Marquis de Sade: For mortal men...

Marquis de Sade: For mortal men...

For mortal men there is but one hell, and that is the folly and wickedness and spite of his fellows; but once his life...

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Marquis de Sade: They declaim against...

Marquis de Sade: They declaim against...

They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its...

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Graham Henry Greene: Media is a...

Graham Henry Greene: Media is a...

Media is a word that has come to mean bad journalism.

Source: Ways of Escape.
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Lois McMaster Bujold: His mother had...

Lois McMaster Bujold: His mother had...

His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized...

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Lois McMaster Bujold: A weapon is...

Lois McMaster Bujold: A weapon is...

A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.

Source: In Collection...

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Joseph Heller: The enemy is...

Joseph Heller: The enemy is...

The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on.

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George Eliot: I tell you...

George Eliot: I tell you...

I tell you there isn't a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do better than a woman,...

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George Eliot: But the mother's...

George Eliot: But the mother's...

But the mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the essence of real human love,...

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George Eliot: The desire to...

George Eliot: The desire to...

The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection.

Source: Daniel Deronda, bk....

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George Eliot: One way of...

George Eliot: One way of...

One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their...

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George Eliot: Speech is often...

George Eliot: Speech is often...

Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you...

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Mark Twain: If you pick...

Mark Twain: If you pick...

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between...

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