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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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Sholem Asch: Personality is the...

Sholem Asch: Personality is the...

Personality is the gland of creativity.

Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase,...

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Margaret Drabble: Why can't people...

Margaret Drabble: Why can't people...

Why can't people be both flexible and efficient?

Source: The Middle Ground,...

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Margaret Drabble: Perhaps the rare...

Margaret Drabble: Perhaps the rare...

Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being...

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Guillaume Apollinaire: Now and then...

Guillaume Apollinaire: Now and then...

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

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Guillaume Apollinaire: To insist on...

Guillaume Apollinaire: To insist on...

To insist on purity is to baptize instinct, to humanize art, and to deify personality.

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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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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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Judith Krantz: It's that or...

Judith Krantz: It's that or...

It's that or get fat again, she told herself, as she . . . searched the windows for new merchandise. The thrill was in...

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Thomas Mann: An art whose...

Thomas Mann: An art whose...

An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a...

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Homer: Wise to resolve,...

Homer: Wise to resolve,...

Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.

Source: In Wisdom of the Ages at Your...

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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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Kingsley Amis: If you can't...

Kingsley Amis: If you can't...

If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.

Source: From...

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Robert Penn Warren: Most writers are...

Robert Penn Warren: Most writers are...

Most writers are trying to find what they think or feel. . . . not simply working from the given, but toward the...

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Artemus Ward: Why care for...

Artemus Ward: Why care for...

Why care for grammar as long as we are good?

Source: Pyrotechny.
-- Artemus...

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Warren Buffett: Time is the...

Warren Buffett: Time is the...

Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.

Source: In...

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Donald Trump: The final key...

Donald Trump: The final key...

The final key to the way I promote is bravado. I play to people's fantasies. People may not always think big...

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Mary Kay Ash: Listen long enough...

Mary Kay Ash: Listen long enough...

Listen long enough and the person will generally come up with an adequate solution.

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Mary Kay Ash: Aerodynamically the bumblebee...

Mary Kay Ash: Aerodynamically the bumblebee...

Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know it, so it goes on flying...

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Christopher Columbus: Following the sun...

Christopher Columbus: Following the sun...

Following the sun we left the old world.

Source: Inscription on one of Columbus'...

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