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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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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 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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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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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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Shirley Jackson: February, when the...

Shirley Jackson: February, when the...

February, when the days of winter seem endless and no amount of wistful recollecting can bring back any air of...

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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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Tom Clancy: The difference between...

Tom Clancy: The difference between...

The difference between reality and fiction? Fiction has to make sense.

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Ken Kesey: You can't really...

Ken Kesey: You can't really...

You can't really be strong until you see a funny side to things.

Source: One Flew...

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Margaret Drabble: The middle years,...

Margaret Drabble: The middle years,...

The middle years, caught between children and parents, free of neither: the past stretches back too densely, it is too...

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Margaret Drabble: The human mind...

Margaret Drabble: The human mind...

The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much intermittent gloom.

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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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Konrad Lorenz: It is a...

Konrad Lorenz: It is a...

It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It...

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James A Froude: Instruction does not...

James A Froude: Instruction does not...

Instruction does not prevent waster of time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of...

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Edward Gibbon: We improve ourselves...

Edward Gibbon: We improve ourselves...

We improve ourselves by victories over ourself. There must be contests, and we must win.

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