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Gertrude Stein: Nature is commonplace....

Gertrude Stein: Nature is commonplace....

Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.

Source: In My Autobiography,...

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Richard Brinsley Sheridan: Easy writings curse...

Richard Brinsley Sheridan: Easy writings curse...

Easy writings curse is hard reading.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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War correspondents ....

War correspondents ....

War correspondents . . . see a great deal of the world. Our obligation is to pass it on to...

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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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If you want...

If you want...

If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her little...

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Edward De Bono: The need to...

Edward De Bono: The need to...

The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas. It is better to have enough ideas for some of them...

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Thomas Fuller: Don't let your...

Thomas Fuller: Don't let your...

Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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George Sand: Try to keep...

George Sand: Try to keep...

Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age, and to imagine right up to the brink of death that life...

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What the New...

What the New...

What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live...

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Robert Motherwell: It's not that...

Robert Motherwell: It's not that...

It's not that the creative act and the critical act are simultaneous. It's more like you blurt something out and then...

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There is an...

There is an...

There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

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Edith Hamilton: When the mind...

Edith Hamilton: When the mind...

When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.

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Ken Kesey: The trouble with...

Ken Kesey: The trouble with...

The trouble with super heroes is what to do between phone booths.

Source: In...

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George Bernard Shaw: Beware of false...

George Bernard Shaw: Beware of false...

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

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Mordecai Richler: Fundamentally, all writing...

Mordecai Richler: Fundamentally, all writing...

Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here,...

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Robert Motherwell: The public's appetite...

Robert Motherwell: The public's appetite...

The public's appetite for famous people is a mouth as big as a mountain.

Source: In...

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The toughest thing...

The toughest thing...

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

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Georges Jacques Danton: For what is...

Georges Jacques Danton: For what is...

For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?

Source: From...

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Drink, and dance...

Drink, and dance...

Drink, and dance and laugh and lie,
Love the reeling midnight through,
For tomorrow we shall die!
(But,...

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But these were...

But these were...

But these were the dreams of a poet doomed at last to wake a lexicographer.

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