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Alain Locke: Art must discover...

Alain Locke: Art must discover...

Art must discover and reveal the beauty which prejudice and caricature have overlaid.

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Emile M Cioran: Criticism is a...

Emile M Cioran: Criticism is a...

Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: The anarchist and...

Friedrich Nietzsche: The anarchist and...

The anarchist and the Christian have a common origin.

Source: The Antichrist, aph....

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Immanuel Kant: Imagination is a...

Immanuel Kant: Imagination is a...

Imagination is a powerful agent for creating, as it were, a second nature out of the material supplied to it by actual...

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Charles Dickens: The whole difference...

Charles Dickens: The whole difference...

The whole difference between construction and creation is this; that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is...

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Richard Bach: You are never...

Richard Bach: You are never...

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it,...

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Aldous Huxley: Genius is a...

Aldous Huxley: Genius is a...

Genius is a child up to the age of ten.

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-- Aldous Huxley, (Jul 26...

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Peter De Vries: I was thinking...

Peter De Vries: I was thinking...

I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer...

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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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Peter De Vries: Life is a...

Peter De Vries: Life is a...

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed. Keith...

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James Thurber: You might as...

James Thurber: You might as...

You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.

Source:...

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V S Naipaul: Ignorant people in...

V S Naipaul: Ignorant people in...

Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.

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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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Mark Twain: Why is it...

Mark Twain: Why is it...

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person...

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Elie Wiesel: Writing is not...

Elie Wiesel: Writing is not...

Writing is not like painting where you add. It is not what you put on the canvas that the reader sees. Writing is more...

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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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Joseph Heller: Orr would be...

Joseph Heller: Orr would be...

Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them...

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Jane Harrison: A young and...

Jane Harrison: A young and...

A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will . . . . It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other...

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Nannie Burroughs: To struggle and...

Nannie Burroughs: To struggle and...

To struggle and battle and overcome and absolutely defeat every force designed against us is the only way to...

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bell hooks: She wants to...

bell hooks: She wants to...

She wants to express herself -- to speak her mind. To them it is just talking back.

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