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Mary Renault: In hatred as...

Mary Renault: In hatred as...

In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very...

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Mary Renault: Go with your...

Mary Renault: Go with your...

Go with your fate, but not beyond. Beyond leads to dark places.

Source: The Bull...

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F Scott Fitzgerald: Vitality shows not...

F Scott Fitzgerald: Vitality shows not...

Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist, but in the ability to start over.

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Evelyn Waugh: I expect you'll...

Evelyn Waugh: I expect you'll...

I expect you'll be becoming a schoolmaster sir. That's what most of the gentlemen does sir, that gets sent down for...

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Joseph Heller: He was a...

Joseph Heller: He was a...

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

Source: Catch-22,...

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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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Shirley Jackson: The idea of...

Shirley Jackson: The idea of...

The idea of a series of items, following one another docilely, forms the only possible reasonable approach to life if...

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Salman Rushdie: If Woody Allen...

Salman Rushdie: If Woody Allen...

If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.

Source: On the anger and death...

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Mario Puzo: He's a businessman....

Mario Puzo: He's a businessman....

He's a businessman. I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.

Source: The Godfather,...

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Ken Kesey: The trouble with...

Ken Kesey: The trouble with...

The trouble with super heroes is what to do between phone booths.

Source: In...

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Francois Mauriac: No love, no...

Francois Mauriac: No love, no...

No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it...

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Mark Twain: Duties are not...

Mark Twain: Duties are not...

Duties are not performed for duty's sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs...

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Joanna Field: I began to...

Joanna Field: I began to...

I began to suggest that thought, which I had always before Iooked on as a cart-horse to be driven, whipped and...

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Wayne Dyer: Maxim for life:...

Wayne Dyer: Maxim for life:...

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

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Henry David Thoreau: The poet is...

Henry David Thoreau: The poet is...

The poet is a man who lives at last by watching his moods. An old poet comes at last to watch his moods as narrowly as...

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Elizabeth Garrett Anderson: I asked [my...

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson: I asked [my...

I asked [my father] what there was to make doctoring more disgusting than nursing, which women were always doing, and...

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Deepak Chopra: The less you...

Deepak Chopra: The less you...

The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.

Source:...

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Edward De Bono: To be successful...

Edward De Bono: To be successful...

To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth...

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Austin O'Malley: Truth lives in...

Austin O'Malley: Truth lives in...

Truth lives in the cellar; error on the doorstep.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Claude Bernard: A fact in...

Claude Bernard: A fact in...

A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it...

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