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Cleveland Amory: The New England...

Cleveland Amory: The New England...

The New England conscience. . . doesn't stop you from doing what you shouldn't -- it just stops you from enjoying...

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George Borrow: It has been...

George Borrow: It has been...

It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt...

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George Borrow: Youth will be...

George Borrow: Youth will be...

Youth will be served, every dog has his day, and mine has been a fine one.

Source:...

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Margaret Walker: Friends and good...

Margaret Walker: Friends and good...

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

Source: Ji`bilee,...

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Karl von Clausewitz: In war the...

Karl von Clausewitz: In war the...

In war the will is directed at an animate object that reacts.

Source: In The Harper...

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Siegfried Sassoon: And when the...

Siegfried Sassoon: And when the...

And when the war is done and youth stone dead
I'd toddle safely home and die - in bed.


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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr: We need education...

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr: We need education...

We need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.

Source: In...

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Albert Pike: The eyes of...

Albert Pike: The eyes of...

The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man are fixed upon the same creation; but very different are the...

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Alfred Victor Vigny: Perform your long...

Alfred Victor Vigny: Perform your long...

Perform your long and heavy task with energy, treading the path to which Fate has been pleased to call...

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Charles Kingsley: The world goes...

Charles Kingsley: The world goes...

The world goes up and the world goes down,
And the sunshine follows the rain;
And yesterday's sneer and...

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Jean Toomer: Perhaps . ....

Jean Toomer: Perhaps . ....

Perhaps . . . our lot on the earth is to seek and to search. Now and again we find just enough to enable us to carry...

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Milan Kundera: For a novelist,...

Milan Kundera: For a novelist,...

For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question:...

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Kingsley Amis: A dusty thudding...

Kingsley Amis: A dusty thudding...

A dusty thudding in his head made the scene before him beat like a pulse. His mouth had been used as a latrine by some...

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E L Doctorow: Writing is like...

E L Doctorow: Writing is like...

Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole...

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Alice Walker: Expect nothing. Live...

Alice Walker: Expect nothing. Live...

Expect nothing. Live frugally
On surprise.


Source: Expect Nothing, Revolutionary...

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Joseph Heller: He was a...

Joseph Heller: He was a...

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

Source: Catch-22,...

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Lisa Alther: That's the risk...

Lisa Alther: That's the risk...

That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other...

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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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Artemus Ward: It ain't so...

Artemus Ward: It ain't so...

It ain't so much what people don't know that hurts as what they know that ain't so.

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Elie Wiesel: Writing is not...

Elie Wiesel: Writing is not...

Writing is not like painting where you add. It is not what you put on the canvas that the reader sees. Writing is more...

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