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Barbara Ward: We cannot cheat...

Barbara Ward: We cannot cheat...

We cannot cheat on DNA. We cannot get round photosynthesis. We cannot say I am not going to give a damn about...

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Oscar Wilde: That is what...

Oscar Wilde: That is what...

That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as...

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Rainer M Rilke: Fame is the...

Rainer M Rilke: Fame is the...

Fame is the sum of the misunderstanding that gathers about a new name.

Source: In...

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Katharine Hepburn: Why slap them...

Katharine Hepburn: Why slap them...

Why slap them on the wrist with feather when you can belt them over the head with a...

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John Ford: Whilst we strive...

John Ford: Whilst we strive...

Whilst we strive
To live most free, we're caught in our own toils.


Source: The...

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Robert Frost: Poetry is what...

Robert Frost: Poetry is what...

Poetry is what gets lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation.

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Paul Verlaine: And everything else...

Paul Verlaine: And everything else...

And everything else is just literature

Source: [Et tout le reste est litt?rature];...

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Reviewers . ....

Reviewers . ....

Reviewers . . . must normally function as huff-and-puff artists blowing laggard theatergoers...

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Good character is...

Good character is...

Good character is like a rubber ball -
Thrown down hard - it bounces right back.
Good reputation is like a...

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Inaction, save as...

Inaction, save as...

Inaction, save as a measure of recuperation between bursts of activity, is painful and dangerous to the healthy...

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The true function...

The true function...

The true function of art is to edit nature and so to make it coherent and lovely. The artist is a sort of impassioned...

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I would even...

I would even...

I would even go to Washington, which is saying something for me, just to glimpse Jane Q. Public, being sworn in as the...

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Science has always...

Science has always...

Science has always been too dignified to invent a good backscratcher.

Source: In

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He is so...

He is so...

He is so unlucky that he runs into accidents which start out to happen to somebody else.

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Genius is that...

Genius is that...

Genius is that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates.

Source: In...

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A Frenchman must...

A Frenchman must...

A Frenchman must be always talking, whether he knows anything of the matter or not; an Englishman is content to say...

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Attention and respect...

Attention and respect...

Attention and respect give pleasure, however late, or however useless. But they are not useless, when they are late,...

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Every man has...

Every man has...

Every man has a lurking wish to appear considerable in his native place.

Source:...

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Life cannot subsist...

Life cannot subsist...

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

Source:
-- Samuel...

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Seldom any splendid...

Seldom any splendid...

Seldom any splendid story is wholly true.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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