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Charles Kingsley: We act as...

Charles Kingsley: We act as...

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy...

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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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Margaret Atwood: Gardening is not...

Margaret Atwood: Gardening is not...

Gardening is not a rational act.

Source: Bluebeard's Egg/ 1986
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Margaret Atwood: If the national...

Margaret Atwood: If the national...

If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid...

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Margaret Atwood: The Eskimos had...

Margaret Atwood: The Eskimos had...

The Eskimos had 52 names for snow because it was important to them; there ought to be as many for...

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Robert Penn Warren: A young man's...

Robert Penn Warren: A young man's...

A young man's ambition [is] to get along in the world and make a place for himself half your life goes that way, till...

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Mary Renault: You can make...

Mary Renault: You can make...

You can make an audience see nearly anything, if you yourself believe in it.

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Anatole France: Man is so...

Anatole France: Man is so...

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labour by taking up...

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Natalia Ginzburg: When I write...

Natalia Ginzburg: When I write...

When I write stories I am like someone who is in her own country, walking along streets that she has known since she...

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Ellen Glasgow: To teach one's...

Ellen Glasgow: To teach one's...

To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice.

Source: The Woman Within,...

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Sarah Orne Jewett: In the life...

Sarah Orne Jewett: In the life...

In the life of each of us, I said to myself, there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or...

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Sarah Orne Jewett: Tact is after...

Sarah Orne Jewett: Tact is after...

Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.

Source: The Country of the Pointed Firs...

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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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Beatrix Potter: Thank goodness I...

Beatrix Potter: Thank goodness I...

Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the...

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Robertson Davies: Few people can...

Robertson Davies: Few people can...

Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.

Source: Dylan Thomas...

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Artemus Ward: I prefer temperance...

Artemus Ward: I prefer temperance...

I prefer temperance hotels - although they sell worse kinds of liquor than any other kind of...

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Charles Buxton: The first duty...

Charles Buxton: The first duty...

The first duty to children is to make them happy, If you have not made them so, you have wronged them, No other good...

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Robert Nathan: A man's family...

Robert Nathan: A man's family...

A man's family sets him apart from all other living creatures. . . . Only man stands with his children from first to...

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George Orwell: Advertising is the...

George Orwell: Advertising is the...

Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.

Source: In Quotable...

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Michael Crichton: In the information...

Michael Crichton: In the information...

In the information society, nobody thinks. We expect to banish paper, but we actually banish...

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