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Lisa Alther: I wrote for...

Lisa Alther: I wrote for...

I wrote for twelve years and collected 250 rejection slips before getting any fiction published, so I guess outside...

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Lisa Alther: That's the risk...

Lisa Alther: That's the risk...

That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other...

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Homer: It is always...

Homer: It is always...

It is always the latest song that an audience applauds the most.

Source:...

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Milan Kundera: No great movement...

Milan Kundera: No great movement...

No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes...

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Robert Penn Warren: The urge to...

Robert Penn Warren: The urge to...

The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch...

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Charles Buxton: To make pleasures...

Charles Buxton: To make pleasures...

To make pleasures pleasant, shorten them.

Source:
-- Charles Buxton, ( ...

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Artemus Ward: I am happiest...

Artemus Ward: I am happiest...

I am happiest when I am idle. I could live for months without performing any kind of labor, and at the expiration of...

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Henry Brooks Adams: American society is...

Henry Brooks Adams: American society is...

American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is...

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Henry Brooks Adams: Politics, whatever its...

Henry Brooks Adams: Politics, whatever its...

Politics, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of...

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Jacob Bronowski: Knowledge is an...

Jacob Bronowski: Knowledge is an...

Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

Source: In The...

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Byron R White: To exclude all...

Byron R White: To exclude all...

To exclude all jurors who would be in the slightest way affected by the prospect of the death penalty would be to...

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Rose Elizabeth Bird: It is easy...

Rose Elizabeth Bird: It is easy...

It is easy to be popular. It is not easy to be just.

Source: In Boston Globe, 25...

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Orison Swett Marden: If we put...

Orison Swett Marden: If we put...

If we put the emphasis upon the right things, if we live the life that is worth while and then fail, we will survive...

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Orison Swett Marden: A good system...

Orison Swett Marden: A good system...

A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Charles Montesquieu: What the orators...

Charles Montesquieu: What the orators...

What the orators lack in depth, they give you in length.

Source: In Quotable...

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Patricia Meyer Spacks: The clich? that...

Patricia Meyer Spacks: The clich? that...

The clich? that women, more consistently than men, turn inward for sustenance seems to mean, in practice, that women...

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Pliny the Elder: Hope is the...

Pliny the Elder: Hope is the...

Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.

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Desiderius Erasmus: I have turned...

Desiderius Erasmus: I have turned...

I have turned my entire attention to Greek. The first thing I shall do, as soon as the money arrives, is to buy some...

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Desiderius Erasmus: War is delightful...

Desiderius Erasmus: War is delightful...

War is delightful to those who have no experience with it.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Potter Stewart: I shall not...

Potter Stewart: I shall not...

I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material [pornography] . . . but I know it when I see...

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