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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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V S Naipaul: The world is...

V S Naipaul: The world is...

The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in...

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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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Michael Crichton: In the information...

Michael Crichton: In the information...

In the information society, nobody thinks. We expect to banish paper, but we actually banish...

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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.

Source:...

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Robert Penn Warren: Most writers are...

Robert Penn Warren: Most writers are...

Most writers are trying to find what they think or feel. . . . not simply working from the given, but toward the...

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J R R Tolkien: Faithless is he...

J R R Tolkien: Faithless is he...

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

Source: The dwarf Gimli,...

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Ivan Turgenev: Most people can't...

Ivan Turgenev: Most people can't...

Most people can't understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.

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John Locke: It is one...

John Locke: It is one...

It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of...

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John Bunyan: My sword I...

John Bunyan: My sword I...

My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get...

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Mahatma Gandhi: Capital as such...

Mahatma Gandhi: Capital as such...

Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be...

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Emile Chartier: We prove what...

Emile Chartier: We prove what...

We prove what we want to prove, and the real difficulty is to know what we want to prove.

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Emile M Cioran: All that shimmers...

Emile M Cioran: All that shimmers...

All that shimmers on the surface of the world, all that we call interesting, is the fruit of ignorance and...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: The surest way...

Friedrich Nietzsche: The surest way...

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: Early in the...

Friedrich Nietzsche: Early in the...

Early in the morning, at break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one's strength, to read a book --I call that...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: When one does...

Friedrich Nietzsche: When one does...

When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: A great man...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: A great man...

A great man is always willing to be little.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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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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