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Sarah Orne Jewett: The road was...

Sarah Orne Jewett: The road was...

The road was new to me, as roads always are, going back.

Source: The Country of the...

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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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Charles Buxton: Experience shows that...

Charles Buxton: Experience shows that...

Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal.

Source: In The...

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Ian Fleming: A horse is...

Ian Fleming: A horse is...

A horse is dangerous at both ends and uncomfortable in the middle.

Source: In...

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Mary Stewart: The best way...

Mary Stewart: The best way...

The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you...

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Charles Kingsley: Young blood must...

Charles Kingsley: Young blood must...

Young blood must have its course, lad, and every dog its day.

Source: In Correct...

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Sinclair Lewis: Our American professors...

Sinclair Lewis: Our American professors...

Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.

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Milan Kundera: Optimism is the...

Milan Kundera: Optimism is the...

Optimism is the opium of the people.

Source: The Joke, pt. 3, ch. 3 (1967; tr....

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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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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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Mary McCarthy: If someone tells...

Mary McCarthy: If someone tells...

If someone tells you he is going to make a realistic decision, you immediately understand that he has resolved to do...

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V S Naipaul: Ignorant people in...

V S Naipaul: Ignorant people in...

Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.

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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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Clive Barker: The threads can...

Clive Barker: The threads can...

The threads can always be traced back to some earlier tale, and to the tales that preceded that; though as the...

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Sinclair Lewis: When audiences come...

Sinclair Lewis: When audiences come...

When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we'll be funnier to look at than...

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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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I have found...

I have found...

I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the...

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A wise man...

A wise man...

A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.

Source: In Webster's...

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The human brain...

The human brain...

The human brain can soften as a result of incessant listening to music with an intent to commit...

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There are to...

There are to...

There are to us no ties at all just in being a father. A son is distinctly an acquired taste. It's the practice of...

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