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Lewis Carroll: Now here, you...

Lewis Carroll: Now here, you...

Now here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else,...

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Publilius Syrus: From the errors...

Publilius Syrus: From the errors...

From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.

Source: In Quote Disk 1,2,3,...

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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: Why do you...

James Thurber: Why do you...

Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?

Source: Attrib. Actually...

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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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Thomas Mann: Opinions cannot survive...

Thomas Mann: Opinions cannot survive...

Opinions cannot survive if no one has a chance to fight for them.

Source: The Magic...

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Anthony Powell: People think that...

Anthony Powell: People think that...

People think that because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Biography and memoirs...

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Johanna Spyri: Anger has overpowered...

Johanna Spyri: Anger has overpowered...

Anger has overpowered him, and driven him to a revenge which was rather a stupid one, I must acknowledge, but anger...

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Evelyn Waugh: Particularly against books...

Evelyn Waugh: Particularly against books...

Particularly against books the Home Secretary is. If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least...

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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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Sinclair Lewis: Don't be a...

Sinclair Lewis: Don't be a...

Don't be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.

Source:...

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Peter De Vries: It is the...

Peter De Vries: It is the...

It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.

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Rumer Godden: Pax: peace, but...

Rumer Godden: Pax: peace, but...

Pax: peace, but what a strange peace, made of unremitting toil and effort, seldom with a seen result. ....

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Philip Guedalla: Biography, like big...

Philip Guedalla: Biography, like big...

Biography, like big game hunting, is one of the recognized forms of sport, and it is [as] unfair as only sport can...

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Learned Hand: The art of...

Learned Hand: The art of...

The art of publicity is a black art; but it has come to stay, and every year adds to its...

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Byron R White: We're the only...

Byron R White: We're the only...

We're the only branch of government that explains itself in writing every time it makes a...

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Albert Pike: The eyes of...

Albert Pike: The eyes of...

The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man are fixed upon the same creation; but very different are the...

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Charles Montesquieu: If one only...

Charles Montesquieu: If one only...

If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and...

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J B S Haldane: I am quite...

J B S Haldane: I am quite...

I am quite sure that our views on evolution would be very different had biologists studied genetics and natural...

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Theodore H White: The gusto of...

Theodore H White: The gusto of...

The gusto of one, the indignation of the other; the challenge of the one party, the response of the other; the...

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