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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Do what you...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Do what you...

Do what you know and perception is converted into character.

Source: In The...

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E M Forster: To make us...

E M Forster: To make us...

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong...

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E M Forster: Yes, oh dear,...

E M Forster: Yes, oh dear,...

Yes, oh dear, yes, the novel tells a story.

Source: Aspects of the Novel,...

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E M Forster: The final test...

E M Forster: The final test...

The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which...

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E M Forster: I distrust Great...

E M Forster: I distrust Great...

I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel...

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John Steinbeck: I know this...

John Steinbeck: I know this...

I know this -- a man got to do what he got to do.

Source: The Grapes of...

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Evelyn Waugh: I think to...

Evelyn Waugh: I think to...

I think to be oversensitive about clich?s is like being oversensitive about table manners.

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Marquis de Sade: Never lose sight...

Marquis de Sade: Never lose sight...

Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it...

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Graham Henry Greene: A solitary laugh...

Graham Henry Greene: A solitary laugh...

A solitary laugh is often a laugh of superiority.

Source: Monsignor Quixote, Pt I....

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George Eliot: It seems to...

George Eliot: It seems to...

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we...

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George Eliot: Wear a smile...

George Eliot: Wear a smile...

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. What do we live for if not to make the world less...

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George Eliot: To act with...

George Eliot: To act with...

To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved...

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George Eliot: But human experience...

George Eliot: But human experience...

But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current...

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George Eliot: The beginning of...

George Eliot: The beginning of...

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

Source: Felix Holt,...

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George Eliot: Strange, that some...

George Eliot: Strange, that some...

Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the...

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Mark Twain: I can understand...

Mark Twain: I can understand...

I can understand German as well as the maniac that invented it, but I talk it best through an...

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Mark Twain: The radical invents...

Mark Twain: The radical invents...

The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.

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Mark Twain: Against the assault...

Mark Twain: Against the assault...

Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Mark Twain: Fiction is obliged...

Mark Twain: Fiction is obliged...

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

Source:
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Mark Twain: He does not...

Mark Twain: He does not...

He does not care for flowers. Calls them rubbish, and cannot tell one from another, and thinks it is superior to feel...

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