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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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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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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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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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Evelyn Waugh: Don't give your...

Evelyn Waugh: Don't give your...

Don't give your opinions about Art and the Purpose of Life. They are of little interest and, anyway, you can't...

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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: I want to...

Joseph Heller: I want to...

I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night...

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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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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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Robert Ludlum: The premise which...

Robert Ludlum: The premise which...

The premise which will be the spinal thunderbolt of an incredible tale begins to take on substance as characters...

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Marcus Aurelius Antoninus: The happiness of...

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus: The happiness of...

The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts.

Source: In The...

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Sarah Orne Jewett: The thing that...

Sarah Orne Jewett: The thing that...

The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper -- whether...

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Italo Calvino: It is not...

Italo Calvino: It is not...

It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.

Source: Marco Polo, in...

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Joseph Heller: Success and failure...

Joseph Heller: Success and failure...

Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying,...

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Laurence Sterne: Tis known by...

Laurence Sterne: Tis known by...

'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause -- and of obstinacy in a bad one.

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Shirley Jackson: It is only...

Shirley Jackson: It is only...

It is only with the eyes open that a corporeal form returns, and assembles itself firmly around the hard core of...

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Trust everybody, but...

Trust everybody, but...

Trust everybody, but cut the cards.

Source: Casual Observations, 1900.
-- Finley...

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Frank Leahy: When the going...

Frank Leahy: When the going...

When the going gets tough, let the tough get going.

Source: In My Favorite...

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Don't be condescending...

Don't be condescending...

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

Source:...

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Falsehood often lurks...

Falsehood often lurks...

Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self-praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of...

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