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Lois McMaster Bujold: Good soldiers never...

Lois McMaster Bujold: Good soldiers never...

Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the...

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Jane Austen: It was not...

Jane Austen: It was not...

It was not very wonderful that Catherine . . . should prefer cricket, base ball . . . to...

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Richard Bach: An idea is...

Richard Bach: An idea is...

An idea is never given to you without you being given the power to make it reality. You must, nevertheless, suffer for...

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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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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: 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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Peter De Vries: I write when...

Peter De Vries: I write when...

I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every...

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Peter De Vries: The rich aren't...

Peter De Vries: The rich aren't...

The rich aren't like us -- they pay less taxes.

Source: The Washington Post,...

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James Thurber: My drawings have...

James Thurber: My drawings have...

My drawings have been described as pre-intentionalist, meaning that they were finished before the ideas for them had...

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Thomas Mann: Order and simplification...

Thomas Mann: Order and simplification...

Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.

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Nelson Algren: The Impossible Generalized...

Nelson Algren: The Impossible Generalized...

The Impossible Generalized Man is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy...

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Mary Stewart: I reached for...

Mary Stewart: I reached for...

I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful...

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Judith Krantz: The only way...

Judith Krantz: The only way...

The only way to find out if you can write is to set aside a certain period every day and try. Save enough money to...

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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.

Source:...

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Wilkie Collins: Peace rules the...

Wilkie Collins: Peace rules the...

Peace rules the day where reason rules the mind.

Source: In The Forbes Book of...

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Lois McMaster Bujold: You don't pay...

Lois McMaster Bujold: You don't pay...

You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in...

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Lois McMaster Bujold: If you want...

Lois McMaster Bujold: If you want...

If you want to catch something, running after it isn't always the best way.

Source:...

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Italo Calvino: A classic is...

Italo Calvino: A classic is...

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

Source: Why...

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Salman Rushdie: Not even the...

Salman Rushdie: Not even the...

Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to...

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Evelyn Waugh: Enclosing every thin...

Evelyn Waugh: Enclosing every thin...

Enclosing every thin man, there's a fat man demanding elbow-room.

Source:...

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