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Jane Austen: It was not...

Jane Austen: It was not...

It was not very wonderful that Catherine . . . should prefer cricket, base ball . . . to...

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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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Lisa Alther: I wrote for...

Lisa Alther: I wrote for...

I wrote for twelve years and collected 250 rejection slips before getting any fiction published, so I guess outside...

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John LeCarre: A desk is...

John LeCarre: A desk is...

A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world.

Source: In Quotable...

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John LeCarre: For decades to...

John LeCarre: For decades to...

For decades to come the spy world will continue to be the collective couch where the subconscious of each nation is...

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Rumer Godden: The motto was...

Rumer Godden: The motto was...

The motto was Pax, but the word was set in a circle of thorns.

Source: On a...

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Lois McMaster Bujold: Good soldiers never...

Lois McMaster Bujold: Good soldiers never...

Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the...

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Henry Jackson Vandyke, Jr: Jazz: Music invented...

Henry Jackson Vandyke, Jr: Jazz: Music invented...

Jazz: Music invented by demons for the torture of imbeciles.

Source: In The...

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Theodor W Adorno: Art is permitted...

Theodor W Adorno: Art is permitted...

Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent...

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Jiddu Krishnamurti: There is no...

Jiddu Krishnamurti: There is no...

There is no need to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The...

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Joseph Roux: It is a...

Joseph Roux: It is a...

It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent.

Source:...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: When one does...

Friedrich Nietzsche: When one does...

When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: When we talk...

Friedrich Nietzsche: When we talk...

When we talk in company we lose our unique tone of voice, and this leads us to make statements which is no way...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Common sense is...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Common sense is...

Common sense is the wick of the candle.

Source: Journals, 1845.
-- Ralph Waldo...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: A child is...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: A child is...

A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.

Source: In Correct Quotes for DOS, WordStar...

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Robert Penn Warren: What is a...

Robert Penn Warren: What is a...

What is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding? It is the deepest part of...

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Plutarch: Rest is the...

Plutarch: Rest is the...

Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.

Source: In The Book of Success, ed. Richard Shea,...

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Gotthold Lessing: What education is...

Gotthold Lessing: What education is...

What education is to the individual, revelation is to the whole human race.

Source:...

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Jean Jacques Rousseau: He who is...

Jean Jacques Rousseau: He who is...

He who is most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in performance of it.

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Jean Jacques Rousseau: The thirst after...

Jean Jacques Rousseau: The thirst after...

The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man.

Source: In...

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