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Edward Dahlberg: Every decision you...

Edward Dahlberg: Every decision you...

Every decision you make is a mistake.

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Edward Dahlberg: Everything ultimately fails,...

Edward Dahlberg: Everything ultimately fails,...

Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical...

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Edward Dahlberg: Men are mad...

Edward Dahlberg: Men are mad...

Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. . . . The acts of people are baffling unless we realize...

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Edward Dahlberg: To write is...

Edward Dahlberg: To write is...

To write is a humiliation.

Source: The Carnal Myth, Introduction (1968).
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Anthony Burgess: He said it...

Anthony Burgess: He said it...

He said it was artificial respiration but now I find I'm to have his child.

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Charles Dickens: It will be...

Charles Dickens: It will be...

It will be very generally found that those who will sneer habitually at human nature . . . are among its worst and...

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Charles Dickens: Therefore I do...

Charles Dickens: Therefore I do...

Therefore I do require it, which I makes confession, to be brought reg'lar and draw'd...

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Charles Dickens: I am quite...

Charles Dickens: I am quite...

I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores...

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Charles Dickens: Uriah, with his...

Charles Dickens: Uriah, with his...

Uriah, with his long hands slowly twining over one another, made a ghastly writhe from the waist...

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Charles Dickens: Man's courses forshadow...

Charles Dickens: Man's courses forshadow...

Man's courses forshadow certain ends; but if these courses be departed from these ends will...

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Charles Dickens: A boy's story...

Charles Dickens: A boy's story...

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Charles Dickens: Reflect upon your...

Charles Dickens: Reflect upon your...

Reflect upon your present blessings -- of which every man has many -- not on your past misfortunes -- of which all men...

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Charles Dickens: Regrets are the...

Charles Dickens: Regrets are the...

Regrets are the natural property of gray hairs.

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Mark Twain: What is there...

Mark Twain: What is there...

What is there that confers the noblest delight? What is that which swells a man's breast with pride above that which...

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Mark Twain: Let us endeavor...

Mark Twain: Let us endeavor...

Let us endeavor to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

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Mark Twain: I reverently believe...

Mark Twain: I reverently believe...

I reverently believe that the Maker who made us all makes everything in New England but the weather. I don't know who...

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Mark Twain: Let me make...

Mark Twain: Let me make...

Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs...

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Mark Twain: A joke, even...

Mark Twain: A joke, even...

A joke, even if it be a lame one, is nowhere so keenly relished or quickly applauded as in a murder...

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Mark Twain: Hardly a man...

Mark Twain: Hardly a man...

Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, politics or religion which he got otherwise than through his...

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Mark Twain: I am a...

Mark Twain: I am a...

I am a democrat only on principle, not by instinct -- nobody is that. Doubtless some people say they are, but this...

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