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Theodore H White: A liberal is...

Theodore H White: A liberal is...

A liberal is a person who believes that water can be made to run uphill. A conservative is someone who believes...

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Cleveland Amory: Opera is like...

Cleveland Amory: Opera is like...

Opera is like a husband with a foreign title: expensive to support, hard to understand, and therefore a supreme social...

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Elizabeth Bowen: No object is...

Elizabeth Bowen: No object is...

No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.

Source: The House in Paris,...

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Dr Seuss: I meant what...

Dr Seuss: I meant what...

I meant what I said, and I said what I meant.
An elephant's faithful, one hundred...

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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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Shirley Jackson: It has long...

Shirley Jackson: It has long...

It has long been my belief that in times of great stress, such as a 4-day vacation, the thin veneer of family wears...

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Judith Krantz: I have only...

Judith Krantz: I have only...

I have only one reader -- me. I'm the average reader. If I like it, that's all I worry...

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Rumer Godden: The stitch of...

Rumer Godden: The stitch of...

The stitch of a book is its words.

Source: In Book-of-the-Month Club News, Sep...

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Artemus Ward: Let us all...

Artemus Ward: Let us all...

Let us all be happy, and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it...

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P D James: What the detective...

P D James: What the detective...

What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order.

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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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Harper Lee: I do much...

Harper Lee: I do much...

I do much of my creative thinking while golfing. If people know you're working at home they think nothing of walking...

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John LeCarre: Writing is like...

John LeCarre: Writing is like...

Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud...

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Sinclair Lewis: Our American professors...

Sinclair Lewis: Our American professors...

Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.

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Milan Kundera: I think, therefore...

Milan Kundera: I think, therefore...

I think, therefore I am is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.

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Milan Kundera: Solitude: a sweet...

Milan Kundera: Solitude: a sweet...

Solitude: a sweet absence of looks.

Source: Immortality, pt. 1, ch. 6 (1991).
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Milan Kundera: A worker may...

Milan Kundera: A worker may...

A worker may be the hammer's master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be...

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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: 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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Kingsley Amis: It scored right...

Kingsley Amis: It scored right...

It scored right away with me by being the smooth, fine-grained sort, not the coarse, flaky, dry-on-the-outside rubbish...

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