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Tom Clancy: The difference between...

Tom Clancy: The difference between...

The difference between reality and fiction? Fiction has to make sense.

Source:...

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Lisa Alther: Dying was apparently...

Lisa Alther: Dying was apparently...

Dying was apparently a weaning process; all the attachments to familiar people and objects have to be...

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Peter De Vries: Everybody hates me...

Peter De Vries: Everybody hates me...

Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked.

Source: The narrator, Joe...

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Arthur Koestler: True creativity often...

Arthur Koestler: True creativity often...

True creativity often starts where language ends.

Source: The act of Creation, bk....

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Arthur Koestler: Creativity is a...

Arthur Koestler: Creativity is a...

Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same...

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James Agee: Understanding, and action...

James Agee: Understanding, and action...

Understanding, and action proceeding from understanding and guided by it, is one weapon against the world's...

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Kenneth MacKenzie Clark: A visual experience...

Kenneth MacKenzie Clark: A visual experience...

A visual experience is vitalizing. Whereas to write great poetry, to draw continuously on one's inner life, is not...

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Mark Hopkins: Christianity is the...

Mark Hopkins: Christianity is the...

Christianity is the greatest civilizing, moulding, uplifting power on this globe.

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Gilbert Highet: These are not...

Gilbert Highet: These are not...

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. From each of them goes out its own...

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Warren Bennis: Failing organizations are...

Warren Bennis: Failing organizations are...

Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.

Source: The...

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Mary Jean LeTendre: The challenge for...

Mary Jean LeTendre: The challenge for...

The challenge for the 21st century is to bring together parents, the early childhood community, and schools so that...

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Nancy Astor: The penalty of...

Nancy Astor: The penalty of...

The penalty of success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.

Source:...

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Salman Rushdie: The only privilege...

Salman Rushdie: The only privilege...

The only privilege literature deserves -- and this privilege it requires in order to exist -- is the privilege 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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Salman Rushdie: Doubt, it seems...

Salman Rushdie: Doubt, it seems...

Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.

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Salman Rushdie: The real risks...

Salman Rushdie: The real risks...

The real risks for any artist are taken. . . in pushing the work to the limits of what is possible, in the attempt to...

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Guillaume Apollinaire: It's raining my...

Guillaume Apollinaire: It's raining my...

It's raining my soul, it's raining, but it's raining dead eyes.

Source: La Nuit...

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Charles Dickens: Philosophers are only...

Charles Dickens: Philosophers are only...

Philosophers are only men in armor after all.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Gotthold Lessing: He who doesn't...

Gotthold Lessing: He who doesn't...

He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose.

Source: In...

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Jean Jacques Rousseau: The thirst after...

Jean Jacques Rousseau: The thirst after...

The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man.

Source: In...

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