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A major advantage...

A major advantage...

A major advantage of age is learning to accept people without passing judgment.

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Books are funny...

Books are funny...

Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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He who knows...

He who knows...

He who knows and knows not he knows:á he is asleep -- wake him.
He who knows and knows he knows:á he is wise --...

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A fool bolts...

A fool bolts...

A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.

Source: Naked Truth and...

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Surely there must...

Surely there must...

Surely there must be some way to find a husband or, for that matter, merely an escort, without sacrificing one's...

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I was fired...

I was fired...

I was fired from there, finally, for a lot of things, among them my insistence that the Immaculate Conception was...

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She ran the...

She ran the...

She ran the whole gamut of her emotions from A to B.

Source: Of Katharine Hepburn...

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A good newspaper...

A good newspaper...

A good newspaper is never nearly good enough but a lousy newspaper is a joy forever.

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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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Lisa Alther: I happen to...

Lisa Alther: I happen to...

I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting...

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Louis Auchincloss: Only little boys...

Louis Auchincloss: Only little boys...

Only little boys and old men sneer at love.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Guillaume Apollinaire: To insist on...

Guillaume Apollinaire: To insist on...

To insist on purity is to baptize instinct, to humanize art, and to deify personality.

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Charles Dickens: It is a...

Charles Dickens: It is a...

It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual...

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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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Salman Rushdie: The novel does...

Salman Rushdie: The novel does...

The novel does not seek to establish a privileged language but it insists upon the freedom to portray and analyse the...

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Evelyn Waugh: The human mind...

Evelyn Waugh: The human mind...

The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it...

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Joseph Heller: The enemy is...

Joseph Heller: The enemy is...

The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on.

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Henry David Thoreau: Superfluous wealth can...

Henry David Thoreau: Superfluous wealth can...

Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessary of the...

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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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