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Shirley Jackson: The idea of...

Shirley Jackson: The idea of...

The idea of a series of items, following one another docilely, forms the only possible reasonable approach to life if...

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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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Taylor Caldwell: Learning . ....

Taylor Caldwell: Learning . ....

Learning . . . should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion...

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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.

Source:...

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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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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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Jane Austen: For what do...

Jane Austen: For what do...

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?

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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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Richard Bach: That's what learning...

Richard Bach: That's what learning...

That's what learning is, after all: not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed because of it,...

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Thomas Mann: Opinions cannot survive...

Thomas Mann: Opinions cannot survive...

Opinions cannot survive if no one has a chance to fight for them.

Source: The Magic...

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Lisa Alther: What a surprise...

Lisa Alther: What a surprise...

What a surprise to find you could shift the contents of your head like rearranging furniture in a...

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Shirley Jackson: It has long...

Shirley Jackson: It has long...

It has long been my belief that in times of great stress, such as a 4-day vacation, the thin veneer of family wears...

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Louis Auchincloss: Keep doing good...

Louis Auchincloss: Keep doing good...

Keep doing good deeds long enough, and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of...

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James Thurber: Sixty minutes of...

James Thurber: Sixty minutes of...

Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.

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Taylor Caldwell: Learning . ....

Taylor Caldwell: Learning . ....

Learning . . . should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion...

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Rumer Godden: For a dyed-in-the-wool...

Rumer Godden: For a dyed-in-the-wool...

For a dyed-in-the-wool author, nothing is as dead as a book once it is written. . . . She is rather like a cat whose...

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Lois McMaster Bujold: You couldn't be...

Lois McMaster Bujold: You couldn't be...

You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been abused into...

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Lisa Alther: Poets are the...

Lisa Alther: Poets are the...

Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, I've always felt that a person's intelligence is...

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Evelyn Waugh: There aren't many...

Evelyn Waugh: There aren't many...

There aren't many left like him nowadays, what with education and whisky the price it is.

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Italo Calvino: A classic is...

Italo Calvino: A classic is...

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

Source: Why...

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