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Margaret Atwood: A divorce is...

Margaret Atwood: A divorce is...

A divorce is like an amputation; you survive, but there's less of you.

Source: In...

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Margaret Atwood: The beginning of...

Margaret Atwood: The beginning of...

The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not Am I really that oppressed? but Am I really that...

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Jean Toomer: We learn the...

Jean Toomer: We learn the...

We learn the rope of life by untying its knots.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Nora Ephron: With any child...

Nora Ephron: With any child...

With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the...

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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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Charles Dickens: Now, what I...

Charles Dickens: Now, what I...

Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant...

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Evelyn Waugh: I haven't been...

Evelyn Waugh: I haven't been...

I haven't been to sleep for over a year. That's why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn't...

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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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Evelyn Waugh: Instead of this...

Evelyn Waugh: Instead of this...

Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and...

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Lisa Alther: If this was...

Lisa Alther: If this was...

If this was adulthood the only improvement she could detect in her situation was that she could now eat dessert...

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Richard Bach: That's what learning...

Richard Bach: That's what learning...

That's what learning is, after all: not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed because of it,...

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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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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: Or look at...

Peter De Vries: Or look at...

Or look at it this way.
Psychoanalysis is a permanent fad.


Source: Forever...

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Florence Scovel Shinn: We cannot always...

Florence Scovel Shinn: We cannot always...

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we...

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Thomas ? Kempis: Permit no hour...

Thomas ? Kempis: Permit no hour...

Permit no hour to go by without it due improvement.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Thomas ? Kempis: If you cannot...

Thomas ? Kempis: If you cannot...

If you cannot mould yourself as you would wish, how can you expect other people to be entirely to your...

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Mother Teresa: To keep a...

Mother Teresa: To keep a...

To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.

Source: In Saints Among...

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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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