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Arthur Koestler: The more original...

Arthur Koestler: The more original...

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.

Source: In The...

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V S Naipaul: To read a...

V S Naipaul: To read a...

To read a newspaper for the first time is like coming into a film that has been on for an hour. Newspapers are like...

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Harper Lee: Shoot all the...

Harper Lee: Shoot all the...

Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a...

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James Thurber: It is better...

James Thurber: It is better...

It is better to have loafed and lost than never to have loafed at all.

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Harper Lee: Until I feared...

Harper Lee: Until I feared...

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

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Mary McCarthy: Labor is work...

Mary McCarthy: Labor is work...

Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field,...

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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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Evelyn Waugh: That's the public-school...

Evelyn Waugh: That's the public-school...

That's the public-school system all over. They may kick you out, but they never let you...

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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 people...

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Salman Rushdie: A poet's work...

Salman Rushdie: A poet's work...

A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop...

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Salman Rushdie: Sometimes legends make...

Salman Rushdie: Sometimes legends make...

Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.

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Salman Rushdie: When thought becomes...

Salman Rushdie: When thought becomes...

When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.

Source: In...

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Lois McMaster Bujold: I am who...

Lois McMaster Bujold: I am who...

I am who I choose to be. I always have been what I chose?though not always what I pleased....

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Antoine de Saint-Exupery: Neither intelligence nor...

Antoine de Saint-Exupery: Neither intelligence nor...

Neither intelligence nor judgment are creative. If a sculptor is nothing but science and intelligence his hands will...

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George Orwell: Who controls the...

George Orwell: Who controls the...

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

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James B Conant: Some of mankind's...

James B Conant: Some of mankind's...

Some of mankind's most terrible misdeeds have been committed under the spell of certain magic words or...

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Paule Marshall: Perhaps she was...

Paule Marshall: Perhaps she was...

Perhaps she was both child and woman,
darkness and light, past and present,
life and death -- all the...

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Paule Marshall: Once a great...

Paule Marshall: Once a great...

Once a great wrong has been done, it never dies. People speak the words of peace, but their hearts do not forgive....

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George S Patton: If everyone is...

George S Patton: If everyone is...

If everyone is thinking alike then somebody isn't thinking.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Ferdinand Foch: It take 15,000...

Ferdinand Foch: It take 15,000...

It take 15,000 casualties to train a major general.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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