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Margaret Atwood: The Eskimo has...

Margaret Atwood: The Eskimo has...

The Eskimo has fifty-two names for snow because it is important to them; there ought to be as many for...

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Kingsley Amis: He resolved, having...

Kingsley Amis: He resolved, having...

He resolved, having done it once, never to move his eyeballs again.

Source: On...

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Charles Buxton: Self-laudation abounds among...

Charles Buxton: Self-laudation abounds among...

Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as...

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Artemus Ward: When a fellow...

Artemus Ward: When a fellow...

When a fellow says it ain't the money but the principle of the thing, it's the money.

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Henry Miller: If we are...

Henry Miller: If we are...

If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One's destination is never a...

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Nelson Algren: Literature is made...

Nelson Algren: Literature is made...

Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with...

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Rumer Godden: For a dyed-in-the-wool...

Rumer Godden: For a dyed-in-the-wool...

For a dyed-in-the-wool author, nothing is as dead as a book once it is written. . . . She is rather like a cat whose...

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James Thurber: Writers of comedy...

James Thurber: Writers of comedy...

Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them,...

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Andre Malraux: Man is not...

Andre Malraux: Man is not...

Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.

Source: Attributed.
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Antoine de Saint-Exupery: In anything at...

Antoine de Saint-Exupery: In anything at...

In anything at all, perfection is finally attained, not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no...

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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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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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Jane Rule: The real power...

Jane Rule: The real power...

The real power of books is their deep companionability. We learn from them as we learn from the deep companionability...

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Mary McCarthy: Bureacracy, the rule...

Mary McCarthy: Bureacracy, the rule...

Bureacracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.

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Mary McCarthy: We all live...

Mary McCarthy: We all live...

We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own...

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Edward Dahlberg: What has a...

Edward Dahlberg: What has a...

What has a writer to be bombastic about? Whatever good a man may write is the consequence of accident, luck, or...

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Evelyn Waugh: It is a...

Evelyn Waugh: It is a...

It is a curious thing that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of...

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Lois McMaster Bujold: His mother had...

Lois McMaster Bujold: His mother had...

His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized...

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Lois McMaster Bujold: A weapon is...

Lois McMaster Bujold: A weapon is...

A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.

Source: In Collection...

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Joseph Heller: Peace on earth...

Joseph Heller: Peace on earth...

Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.

Source: Good as...

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