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Taylor Caldwell: Learning . ....

Taylor Caldwell: Learning . ....

Learning . . . should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion...

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John LeCarre: I move my...

John LeCarre: I move my...

I move my lips when I read -- I'm painfully slow -- so I like really good English.

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John LeCarre: You should have...

John LeCarre: You should have...

You should have died when I killed you.

Source: Lines for a bureaucrat speaking to...

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Anais Nin: We do not...

Anais Nin: We do not...

We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another, unevenly. We grow...

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George Sand: He who draws...

George Sand: He who draws...

He who draws noble delights from the sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all...

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Charles Buxton: The rule in...

Charles Buxton: The rule in...

The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a...

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Ariel Durant: Only a fool...

Ariel Durant: Only a fool...

Only a fool would try to compress a hundred centuries into a hundred pages of hazardous conclusions. We...

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Natalie Clifford Barney: It is time...

Natalie Clifford Barney: It is time...

It is time for dead languages to be quiet.

Source: In Adam, no. 299, On Writing and...

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Thomas Mann: Literature. . ....

Thomas Mann: Literature. . ....

Literature. . . is the union of suffering with the instinct for form.

Source: In...

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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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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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Milan Kundera: Let us consider...

Milan Kundera: Let us consider...

Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries.

Source: On...

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Milan Kundera: The only reason...

Milan Kundera: The only reason...

The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.

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Robert Nathan: There is no...

Robert Nathan: There is no...

There is no distance on this earth as far away as yesterday.

Source: So Love...

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Margaret Atwood: Never pray for...

Margaret Atwood: Never pray for...

Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Margaret Atwood: Because I am...

Margaret Atwood: Because I am...

Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one.

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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: Self criticism must...

Kingsley Amis: Self criticism must...

Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it is not a virtue,...

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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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Max Eastman: A joke is...

Max Eastman: A joke is...

A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible...

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