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The true ideal...

The true ideal...

The true ideal is not opposed to the real but lies in it; and blessed are the eyes that find...

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Bernice Fitz-Gibbon: Creativeness often consists...

Bernice Fitz-Gibbon: Creativeness often consists...

Creativeness often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that right and left shoes were...

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Eugene O'Neill: Obsessed by a...

Eugene O'Neill: Obsessed by a...

Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of...

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Nothing, it appears...

Nothing, it appears...

Nothing, it appears to me is of greater value in a man than the power of judgement; and the man who has it may be...

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He is the...

He is the...

He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest...

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George Bernard Shaw: I dread success....

George Bernard Shaw: I dread success....

I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by...

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Louise Erdrich: I think a...

Louise Erdrich: I think a...

I think a title is like a magnet. It begins to draw these scraps of experience or conversation or memory to it....

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Guillaume Apollinaire: Without poets, without...

Guillaume Apollinaire: Without poets, without...

Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe...

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Margaret Walker: When I was...

Margaret Walker: When I was...

When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a...

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V S Naipaul: An autobiography can...

V S Naipaul: An autobiography can...

An autobiography can distort, facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies. It reveals the writer...

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Consider, Sir, how...

Consider, Sir, how...

Consider, Sir, how should you like, though conscious of your innocence, to be tried before a jury for a capital crime,...

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John Fletcher: There 's naught...

John Fletcher: There 's naught...

There 's naught in this life sweet,
If man were wise to see 't,
But only melancholy;
O sweetest...

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Margaret Walker: The poetry of...

Margaret Walker: The poetry of...

The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our...

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William Congreve: Tis well enough...

William Congreve: Tis well enough...

Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a...

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Aesop: Slow and steady...

Aesop: Slow and steady...

Slow and steady wins the race.

Source: The Hare and the Tortoise.
-- Aesop, ( ...

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Virginia Woolf: My own brain...

Virginia Woolf: My own brain...

My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery --always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then...

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Vida Blue: It's easy, man....

Vida Blue: It's easy, man....

It's easy, man. I just take the ball and throw. Hard! It's a God-given talent! No one can teach it to you. They either...

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Statues and pictures...

Statues and pictures...

Statues and pictures and verse may be grand, But they are not the Life for which they...

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John Calvin: Each eye can...

John Calvin: Each eye can...

Each eye can have its vision separately; but when we are looking at anything our vision, which in itself is divided,...

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Virginia Woolf: We all indulge...

Virginia Woolf: We all indulge...

We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying, even to someone...

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