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Salman Rushdie: I used to...

Salman Rushdie: I used to...

I used to say: there is a God-shaped hole in me. For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is...

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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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Evelyn Waugh: Instead of this...

Evelyn Waugh: Instead of this...

Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and...

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Martin Amis: Bullets cannot be...

Martin Amis: Bullets cannot be...

Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the...

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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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Benjamin Rush: Our authors and...

Benjamin Rush: Our authors and...

Our authors and scholars are generally men of business, and make their literary pursuits subservient to their...

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Estelle Ramey: . ....

Estelle Ramey: . ....

. . . what is human and the same about the males and females classified as Homo sapiens is much greater than the...

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William A Ward: Opportunity is often...

William A Ward: Opportunity is often...

Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and...

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Emily James Putnam: Until changing economic...

Emily James Putnam: Until changing economic...

Until changing economic conditions made the thing actually happen, struggling early society would hardly have guessed...

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Sarah Louise Delany: I never let...

Sarah Louise Delany: I never let...

I never let prejudice stop me from what I wanted to do in this life.

Source: Having...

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Freda Adler: There is another...

Freda Adler: There is another...

There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke...

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Henry Louis Gates, Jr: We must begin...

Henry Louis Gates, Jr: We must begin...

We must begin to understand the nature of intertextuality . . . the manner by which texts poems and novels respond...

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Miguel de Unamuno: We need God,...

Miguel de Unamuno: We need God,...

We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate wherefore, to give a...

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Robert Hayden: We must not...

Robert Hayden: We must not...

We must not be frightened nor cajoled
into accepting evil as deliverance from evil.
We must go on struggling to...

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William Stanley Braithwaite: Art alone has...

William Stanley Braithwaite: Art alone has...

Art alone has kept her covenant with democracy.

Source: The Crisis, 1915.
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Henry David Thoreau: What does education...

Henry David Thoreau: What does education...

What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.

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Wayne Dyer: How people treat...

Wayne Dyer: How people treat...

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

Source: In The...

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Louis-Ferdinand Celine: The novel can't...

Louis-Ferdinand Celine: The novel can't...

The novel can't compete with cars, the movies, television, and liquor. A guy who's had a good feed and tanked up on...

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Louis-Ferdinand Celine: The poetry of...

Louis-Ferdinand Celine: The poetry of...

The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war, and even more to those whom the war is...

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Mary Catherine Bateson: Sharing is sometimes...

Mary Catherine Bateson: Sharing is sometimes...

Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Source: In Words of Women...

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