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Salman Rushdie: The real risks...

Salman Rushdie: The real risks...

The real risks for any artist are taken. . . in pushing the work to the limits of what is possible, in the attempt to...

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Evelyn Waugh: He was gifted...

Evelyn Waugh: He was gifted...

He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the...

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Ken Kesey: You don't lead...

Ken Kesey: You don't lead...

You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a...

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Joseph Heller: When I grow...

Joseph Heller: When I grow...

When I grow up I want to be a little boy.

Source: Something Happened.
-- Joseph...

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Literature that is...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Literature that is...

Literature that is not the breath of contemporary society, that dares not transmit the pains and fears of that society...

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Richard Bach: Don't be dismayed...

Richard Bach: Don't be dismayed...

Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or...

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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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Anthony Powell: Few persons who...

Anthony Powell: Few persons who...

Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going...

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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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Robert Nathan: Beauty is ever...

Robert Nathan: Beauty is ever...

Beauty is ever to the lonely mind
A shadow fleeting; she is never plain.
She is a visitor who leaves...

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Alice Walker: People tend to...

Alice Walker: People tend to...

People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only...

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Sarah Orne Jewett: The thing that...

Sarah Orne Jewett: The thing that...

The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper -- whether...

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William McFee: A man must...

William McFee: A man must...

A man must let his ideas grow, not be continually rooting them up to see how they are getting...

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Homer: A decent boldness...

Homer: A decent boldness...

A decent boldness ever meets with friends.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Alexis de Tocqueville: The greatness of...

Alexis de Tocqueville: The greatness of...

The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair...

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Potter Stewart: In fact, a...

Potter Stewart: In fact, a...

In fact, a fundamental interdependence exists between the personal right to liberty and the personal right to...

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Amos Bronson Alcott: Strengthen me by...

Amos Bronson Alcott: Strengthen me by...

Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.

Source: Table...

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Amos Bronson Alcott: One must be...

Amos Bronson Alcott: One must be...

One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.

Source: In The Concise Columbia...

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Dale Carnegie: The most important...

Dale Carnegie: The most important...

The most important thing in life is not simply to capitalize on your gains. Any fool can do that. The important thing...

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Gertrude Stein: One does not...

Gertrude Stein: One does not...

One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.

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