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Grace Murray Hopper: If it's a...

Grace Murray Hopper: If it's a...

If it's a good idea . . . go ahead and do it. It is much easier to apologize than it is to get...

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Margaret Atwood: . . ....

Margaret Atwood: . . ....

. . . time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee. . . . I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the...

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Sylvia Plath: If neurotic is...

Sylvia Plath: If neurotic is...

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be...

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Margaret Atwood: Canada was built...

Margaret Atwood: Canada was built...

Canada was built on dead beavers.

Source: National Public Radio Interview/...

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Margaret Atwood: If I were...

Margaret Atwood: If I were...

If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints...

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Charles Buxton: The first duty...

Charles Buxton: The first duty...

The first duty to children is to make them happy, If you have not made them so, you have wronged them, No other good...

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Agatha Christie: Most successes are...

Agatha Christie: Most successes are...

Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by...

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Laurence Sterne: Tis known by...

Laurence Sterne: Tis known by...

'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause -- and of obstinacy in a bad one.

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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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John LeCarre: It's easy to...

John LeCarre: It's easy to...

It's easy to forget what intelligence consists of: luck and speculation. Here and there a windfall, here and there a...

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Italo Calvino: Myth is the...

Italo Calvino: Myth is the...

Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there are as yet...

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Charles Buxton: Experience shows that...

Charles Buxton: Experience shows that...

Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal.

Source: In The...

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Sholom Aleichem: A bachelor is...

Sholom Aleichem: A bachelor is...

A bachelor is a man who comes to work each morning from a different direction.

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Arthur Conan Doyle: Violence does, in...

Arthur Conan Doyle: Violence does, in...

Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for...

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Nora Ephron: I always read...

Nora Ephron: I always read...

I always read the last page of a book first so that if I die before I finish I'll know how it turned...

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Charles Kingsley: Young blood must...

Charles Kingsley: Young blood must...

Young blood must have its course, lad, and every dog its day.

Source: In Correct...

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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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Anthony Powell: People think that...

Anthony Powell: People think that...

People think that because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Biography and memoirs...

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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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