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Addison Gayle, Jr: The extent of...

Addison Gayle, Jr: The extent of...

The extent of the cultural strangulation of Black literature by white critics has been the extent to which they have...

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Kingman Brewster, Jr: There is a...

Kingman Brewster, Jr: There is a...

There is a correlation between the creative and the screwball. So we must suffer the screwball...

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Henry David Thoreau: Man's capacities have...

Henry David Thoreau: Man's capacities have...

Man's capacities have never been measured; nor are we to judge of what he can do by any precedent, so little has been...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: A letter is...

Friedrich Nietzsche: A letter is...

A letter is an unannounced visit, the postman the agent of rude surprises. One ought to reserve an hour a week for...

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Nathaniel Hawthorne: The only sensible...

Nathaniel Hawthorne: The only sensible...

The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's...

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G K Chesterton: All slang is...

G K Chesterton: All slang is...

All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

Source: The Defendant.
-- G K...

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Andre Malraux: One cannot create...

Andre Malraux: One cannot create...

One cannot create an art that speaks to men when one has nothing to say.

Source: In...

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Salman Rushdie: When thought becomes...

Salman Rushdie: When thought becomes...

When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.

Source: In...

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Jean Paul: Humankind's chief fault...

Jean Paul: Humankind's chief fault...

Humankind's chief fault is that they have so many small ones.

Source: In The...

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Winston Churchill: What was gunpowder?...

Winston Churchill: What was gunpowder?...

What was gunpowder? Trivial. What was electricity? Meaningless. The atomic bomb is the Second Coming in...

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Lisa Alther: . . ....

Lisa Alther: . . ....

. . . inspiration never arrived when you were searching for it.

Source: In Words of...

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Mark Twain: Methuselah lived to...

Mark Twain: Methuselah lived to...

Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in...

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Mark Twain: Make it a...

Mark Twain: Make it a...

Make it a point to do something every day that you don't want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit...

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Ariel Durant: One of the...

Ariel Durant: One of the...

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to...

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Innovators and men...

Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Innovators and men...

Innovators and men of genius have almost always been regarded as fools at the beginning (and very often at the end) of...

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Margot Asquith: He's very clever,...

Margot Asquith: He's very clever,...

He's very clever, but sometimes his brains go to his head.

Source: Referring to F....

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Noam Chomsky: Unlimited economic growth...

Noam Chomsky: Unlimited economic growth...

Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that...

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J B S Haldane: Cancer's a Funny...

J B S Haldane: Cancer's a Funny...

Cancer's a Funny Thing:
I wish I had the voice of Homer
To sing of rectal carcinoma,
Which kills a lot more...

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Pearl Buck: All things are...

Pearl Buck: All things are...

All things are possible until they are proved impossible -- and even the impossible may only be so, as of...

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Agatha Christie: It is completely...

Agatha Christie: It is completely...

It is completely unimportant. That is why it is so interesting.

Source: The Murder...

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