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Artemus Ward: I am happiest...

Artemus Ward: I am happiest...

I am happiest when I am idle. I could live for months without performing any kind of labor, and at the expiration of...

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A P Herbert: The concept of...

A P Herbert: The concept of...

The concept of two people living together for 25 years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to...

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James Bryce: No wonder that,...

James Bryce: No wonder that,...

No wonder that, when a political career is so precarious, men of worth and capacity hesitate to embrace it. They...

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Hillary Rodham Clinton: What we have...

Hillary Rodham Clinton: What we have...

What we have to do . . . is to find a way to celebrate our diversity and debate our differences without fracturing our...

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George McGovern: I still love...

George McGovern: I still love...

I still love to go back to Mitchell [his home town] and wander up and down those streets. It just kind of reassures me...

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Margaret Drabble: The middle years,...

Margaret Drabble: The middle years,...

The middle years, caught between children and parents, free of neither: the past stretches back too densely, it is too...

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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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Shirley Jackson: [L]et my reader...

Shirley Jackson: [L]et my reader...

[L]et my reader who is puzzled by my awkward explanations close his eyes for no more than two minutes, and see if he...

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Mario Puzo: He was. ....

Mario Puzo: He was. ....

He was. . . a degenerate gambler. That is, a man who gambled simply to gamble and must lose. As a hero who goes to war...

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Lois McMaster Bujold: You couldn't be...

Lois McMaster Bujold: You couldn't be...

You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been abused into...

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Leo Tolstoy: Error is the...

Leo Tolstoy: Error is the...

Error is the force that welds men together; truth is communicated to men only by deeds of...

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Arthur Conan Doyle: What one man...

Arthur Conan Doyle: What one man...

What one man can invent another can discover.

Source: Sherlock Holmes in 'The...

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Nora Ephron: I am continually...

Nora Ephron: I am continually...

I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from...

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Nora Ephron: When you have...

Nora Ephron: When you have...

When you have a baby, you set off an explosion in your marriage, and when the dust settles, your marriage is different...

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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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Louis L'Amour: No memory is...

Louis L'Amour: No memory is...

No memory is ever alone; it's at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own...

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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. The winner is he who gives himself to his work body...

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Mark Twain: Lump the whole...

Mark Twain: Lump the whole...

Lump the whole thing! Say that the Creator made Italy from designs by Michael Angelo!

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Boris Pasternak: What is laid...

Boris Pasternak: What is laid...

What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of...

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E L Doctorow: Writing is like...

E L Doctorow: Writing is like...

Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole...

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