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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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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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Sholom Aleichem: A bachelor is...

Sholom Aleichem: A bachelor is...

A bachelor is a man who comes to work each morning from a different direction.

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Margaret Atwood: The truly fearless...

Margaret Atwood: The truly fearless...

The truly fearless think of themselves as normal.

Source: Bluebeard's Egg,...

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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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J B Priestley: If there is...

J B Priestley: If there is...

If there is one thing left that I would like to do, it's to write something really beautiful. And I could do it, you...

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Bertolt Brecht: We need a...

Bertolt Brecht: We need a...

We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular...

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Stanislaw Lec: In a war...

Stanislaw Lec: In a war...

In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.

Source:
-- Stanislaw Lec, (Mar...

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Isaac Newton: It is the...

Isaac Newton: It is the...

It is the weight, not numbers, of experiments that is to be regarded.

Source: The...

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Edward Teller: No endeavor that...

Edward Teller: No endeavor that...

No endeavor that is worthwhile is simple in prospect; if it is right, it will be simple in...

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Niels Bohr: Of course I...

Niels Bohr: Of course I...

Of course I don't believe in it. But I understand that it brings you luck whether you believe in it or...

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Niels Bohr: Anyone who is...

Niels Bohr: Anyone who is...

Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it.

Source: From...

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LeCorbusier: I prefer drawing...

LeCorbusier: I prefer drawing...

I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and allows less room for lies.

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Neil Armstrong: Science has not...

Neil Armstrong: Science has not...

Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next...

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Nicolas Copernicus: If there be...

Nicolas Copernicus: If there be...

If there be some who, though ignorant of all mathematics . . . dare to reprove this work, because of some passage of...

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Benjamin Banneker: The colour of...

Benjamin Banneker: The colour of...

The colour of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual...

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John Burroughs: I still find...

John Burroughs: I still find...

I still find each day too short for the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want...

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John Burroughs: Literature is an...

John Burroughs: Literature is an...

Literature is an investment in genius which pays back dividends to all subsequent times.

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