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Charles Dickens: This is a...

Charles Dickens: This is a...

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Source: In The...

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Peter De Vries: There are times...

Peter De Vries: There are times...

There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.

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Mark Twain: A classic --something...

Mark Twain: A classic --something...

A classic --something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

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Mark Twain: We have no...

Mark Twain: We have no...

We have no permanent brains until we are forty. Then they begin to harden, presently they petrify, then business...

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Mark Twain: Work consists of...

Mark Twain: Work consists of...

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to...

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Mark Twain: In the weltering...

Mark Twain: In the weltering...

In the weltering hell of the Moorooroo plain
The Yatala Wangary withers and dies,
And the Worrow Wanilla,...

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Edward Dahlberg: The Americans have...

Edward Dahlberg: The Americans have...

The Americans have always been food, sex, and spirit revivalists.

Source: Alms for...

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Charles Dickens: There are strings,'...

Charles Dickens: There are strings,'...

'There are strings,' said Mr Tappertit, `. . . in the human heart that had better not be...

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Charles Dickens: Minds, like bodies,...

Charles Dickens: Minds, like bodies,...

Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of...

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Charles Dickens: Here's the rule...

Charles Dickens: Here's the rule...

Here's the rule for bargains: Do other men, for they would do you. That's the true business...

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Marquis de Sade: Truth titillates the...

Marquis de Sade: Truth titillates the...

Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.

Source: Friar Claude, in...

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Graham Henry Greene: Despair is the...

Graham Henry Greene: Despair is the...

Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself on an impossible aim.

Source: The...

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George Eliot: No evil dooms...

George Eliot: No evil dooms...

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape...

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George Eliot: In spite of...

George Eliot: In spite of...

In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and...

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Mark Twain: The man who...

Mark Twain: The man who...

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too...

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Mark Twain: They make a...

Mark Twain: They make a...

They make a mouth at you and say thank you 'most to death, but there ain't-a-going to be no...

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Mark Twain: We owe a...

Mark Twain: We owe a...

We owe a deep debt of gratitude to Adam, the first great benefactor of the human race: he brought death into the...

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Mark Twain: When angry, count...

Mark Twain: When angry, count...

When angry, count four; when very angry, swear.

Source: Pudd'nhead Wilson, ch. 10,...

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Mark Twain: You perceive I...

Mark Twain: You perceive I...

You perceive I generalize with intrepidity from single instances. It is the tourist's...

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Marguerite Duras: A journalist is...

Marguerite Duras: A journalist is...

A journalist is someone who looks at the world and the way it works, someone who takes a close look at things every...

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