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Richard Bach: Learning is finding...

Richard Bach: Learning is finding...

Learning is finding out what we already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others...

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Richard Bach: What the caterpillar...

Richard Bach: What the caterpillar...

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.

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Aldous Huxley: Facts do not...

Aldous Huxley: Facts do not...

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Source: Proper Studies,...

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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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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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Guillaume Apollinaire: Now and then...

Guillaume Apollinaire: Now and then...

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

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Charles Dickens: Philosophers are only...

Charles Dickens: Philosophers are only...

Philosophers are only men in armor after all.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Milan Kundera: The sound of...

Milan Kundera: The sound of...

The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.

Source:...

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Robert Nathan: Give exceeding thanks...

Robert Nathan: Give exceeding thanks...

Give exceeding thanks for the mystery which remains a mystery still -- the veil that hides you from the infinite,...

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Margaret Atwood: We thought we...

Margaret Atwood: We thought we...

We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups.

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Kingsley Amis: If you can't...

Kingsley Amis: If you can't...

If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.

Source: From...

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Robert Penn Warren: The end of...

Robert Penn Warren: The end of...

The end of man is knowledge, but [man] can't know whether knowledge will save him or kill him; whether he is killed...

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Harper Lee: The one thing...

Harper Lee: The one thing...

The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

Source:...

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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: Having your book...

John LeCarre: Having your book...

Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.

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Jessamyn West: It is easy...

Jessamyn West: It is easy...

It is easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit to forgive them for having witnessed your...

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Jessamyn West: A broken bone...

Jessamyn West: A broken bone...

A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.

Source: The...

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Sarah Orne Jewett: Tain't worthwhile to...

Sarah Orne Jewett: Tain't worthwhile to...

'Tain't worthwhile to wear a day all out before it comes.

Source: The Country of...

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Charles Buxton: You will never...

Charles Buxton: You will never...

You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.

Source:...

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Charles Buxton: Success soon palls....

Charles Buxton: Success soon palls....

Success soon palls. The joyous time is when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rustle under your...

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