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Elizabeth Bowen: Experience isn't interesting...

Elizabeth Bowen: Experience isn't interesting...

Experience isn't interesting till it begins to repeat itself - in fact, till it does that, it hardly is...

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James Bryce: No wonder that,...

James Bryce: No wonder that,...

No wonder that, when a political career is so precarious, men of worth and capacity hesitate to embrace it. They...

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Eleanor Roosevelt: What one has...

Eleanor Roosevelt: What one has...

What one has to do usually can be done.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Morarji Desai: Self-help must precede...

Morarji Desai: Self-help must precede...

Self-help must precede help from others. Even for making certain of help from heaven, one has to help...

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Marcus Aurelius Antoninus: Let it be...

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus: Let it be...

Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as...

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George McGovern: I still love...

George McGovern: I still love...

I still love to go back to Mitchell [his home town] and wander up and down those streets. It just kind of reassures me...

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Harold Macmillan: Power? It's...

Harold Macmillan: Power? It's...

Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

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A P Herbert: The concept of...

A P Herbert: The concept of...

The concept of two people living together for 25 years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to...

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Milan Kundera: No matter how...

Milan Kundera: No matter how...

No matter how much we scorn it, kitsch is an integral part of the human condition.

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Margaret Atwood: A word after...

Margaret Atwood: A word after...

A word after a word after a word is power.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Margaret Atwood: Another belief of...

Margaret Atwood: Another belief of...

Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in...

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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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Robert Penn Warren: A young man's...

Robert Penn Warren: A young man's...

A young man's ambition [is] to get along in the world and make a place for himself half your life goes that way, till...

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William McFee: If fate means...

William McFee: If fate means...

If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Carolyn Wells: The books we...

Carolyn Wells: The books we...

The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry;
The books that we would like to read we are ashamed to...

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Mark Twain: A monarch, when...

Mark Twain: A monarch, when...

A monarch, when good, is entitled to the consideration which we accord to a pirate who keeps Sunday School between...

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Nora Ephron: When you have...

Nora Ephron: When you have...

When you have a baby, you set off an explosion in your marriage, and when the dust settles, your marriage is different...

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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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Emile M Cioran: Every thought derives...

Emile M Cioran: Every thought derives...

Every thought derives from a thwarted sensation.

Source: The Trouble with Being...

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