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Mark Twain: In Paris they...

Mark Twain: In Paris they...

In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand...

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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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Ralph Ellison: Hibernation is a...

Ralph Ellison: Hibernation is a...

Hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.

Source: The Invisible...

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Charles Buxton: Experience shows that...

Charles Buxton: Experience shows that...

Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal.

Source: In The...

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Italo Calvino: Myth is the...

Italo Calvino: Myth is the...

Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there are as yet...

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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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Sylvia Plath: If neurotic is...

Sylvia Plath: If neurotic is...

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be...

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Kingsley Amis: He was of...

Kingsley Amis: He was of...

He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was...

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Thomas Mann: Order and simplification...

Thomas Mann: Order and simplification...

Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.

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Charles Buxton: To make pleasures...

Charles Buxton: To make pleasures...

To make pleasures pleasant, shorten them.

Source:
-- Charles Buxton, ( ...

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Jean Toomer: We start with...

Jean Toomer: We start with...

We start with gifts. Merit comes from what we make of them.

Source: Definitions and...

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Andre Malraux: Man is not...

Andre Malraux: Man is not...

Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.

Source: Attributed.
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Richard Bach: Not being known...

Richard Bach: Not being known...

Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Source: From BilLee's...

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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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Peter De Vries: I love being...

Peter De Vries: I love being...

I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.

Source: In Webster's...

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Peter De Vries: You can make...

Peter De Vries: You can make...

You can make a sordid thing sound like a brilliant drawing-room comedy. Probably a fear we have of facing up to the...

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James Thurber: It is better...

James Thurber: It is better...

It is better to know some of the questions than all the answers.

Source: In 1,911...

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Mary McCarthy: We all live...

Mary McCarthy: We all live...

We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own...

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Edward Dahlberg: What is most...

Edward Dahlberg: What is most...

What is most appalling in an F. Scott Fitzgerald book is that it is peopleless fiction: Fitzgerald writes about...

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Alexandre Dumas, p?re: How is it...

Alexandre Dumas, p?re: How is it...

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does...

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