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Judith Krantz: The only way...

Judith Krantz: The only way...

The only way to find out if you can write is to set aside a certain period every day and try. Save enough money to...

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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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Anthony Powell: Few persons who...

Anthony Powell: Few persons who...

Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going...

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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.

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Lois McMaster Bujold: If you want...

Lois McMaster Bujold: If you want...

If you want to catch something, running after it isn't always the best way.

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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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Andre Malraux: One cannot create...

Andre Malraux: One cannot create...

One cannot create an art that speaks to men when one has nothing to say.

Source: In...

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Arthur Koestler: The more original...

Arthur Koestler: The more original...

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.

Source: In The...

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Benjamin Jowett: Young men make...

Benjamin Jowett: Young men make...

Young men make great mistakes in life; for one thing, they idealize love too much.

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Mary Lyon: Let us forever...

Mary Lyon: Let us forever...

Let us forever forget that every station in life is necessarily that each deserves our respect; that not the station...

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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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Henry Louis Gates, Jr: I want to...

Henry Louis Gates, Jr: I want to...

I want to be black, to know black, to luxuriate in whatever I might be calling blackness at any particular time, but...

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Wayne Dyer: How people treat...

Wayne Dyer: How people treat...

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

Source: In The...

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Wayne Dyer: It's never too...

Wayne Dyer: It's never too...

It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Louis-Ferdinand Celine: Never believe straight...

Louis-Ferdinand Celine: Never believe straight...

Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's yes, all's well. ...

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Carl Sagan: There is a...

Carl Sagan: There is a...

There is a lurking fear that some things are 'not meant' to be known, that some inquiries are too dangerous for human...

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Agatha Christie: Never do anything...

Agatha Christie: Never do anything...

Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.

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Konrad Lorenz: Historians will have...

Konrad Lorenz: Historians will have...

Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner...

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William C Nell: I yield to...

William C Nell: I yield to...

I yield to no one in appreciating the propriety and pertinency of every effort, on the part of Colored Americans, in...

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Theodore H White: I, alas, must...

Theodore H White: I, alas, must...

I, alas, must present myself somewhat ignominiously as a chef in a busy kitchen. Somewhere a novel is bubbling on a...

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