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Graham Henry Greene: Champagne, if you...

Graham Henry Greene: Champagne, if you...

Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even...

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Samuel Smiles: It is a...

Samuel Smiles: It is a...

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept,...

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Jackson Pollock: Abstract painting is...

Jackson Pollock: Abstract painting is...

Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you.

Source: Quoted by Francis V...

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Lillian Hellman: If I had...

Lillian Hellman: If I had...

If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or...

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Natalie Clifford Barney: How many inner...

Natalie Clifford Barney: How many inner...

How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.

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New Year's Resolution:...

New Year's Resolution:...

New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my...

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So long as...

So long as...

So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give...

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Lillian Hellman: God forgives those...

Lillian Hellman: God forgives those...

God forgives those who invent what they need.

Source: The Little Foxes, 1939.
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Erasmus Darwin: Hear him, ye...

Erasmus Darwin: Hear him, ye...

Hear him, ye Senates, hear this truth sublime;
He who allows oppression shares the...

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The freedom that...

The freedom that...

The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and...

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Judith Viorst: Strength is the...

Judith Viorst: Strength is the...

Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands- and then eat just one of the...

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Henry David Thoreau: Not that the...

Henry David Thoreau: Not that the...

Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.

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John Ford: Why, I hold...

John Ford: Why, I hold...

Why, I hold fate
Clasped in my fist, and could command the course
Of time's eternal motion, hadst thou...

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James Forten: Let not the...

James Forten: Let not the...

Let not the spirit of the father behold the son robbed of that liberty which he died to establish, but let the motto...

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Thurgood Marshall: I have a...

Thurgood Marshall: I have a...

I have a lifetime appointment and I intend to serve it. I expect to die at 110, shot by a jealous...

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Joseph Brodsky: Man is what...

Joseph Brodsky: Man is what...

Man is what he reads.

Source: Quoted by Thomas D'Evelyn Christian Science Monitor,...

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Thomas Browne: Be able to...

Thomas Browne: Be able to...

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.

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Emile Durkheim: One cannot long...

Emile Durkheim: One cannot long...

One cannot long remain so absorbed in contemplation of emptiness without being increasingly attracted to it. In vain...

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Henry David Thoreau: The man who...

Henry David Thoreau: The man who...

The man who does not betake himself at once and desperately to sawing is called a loafer, though he may be knocking at...

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Euripides: Slight not what...

Euripides: Slight not what...

Slight not what is near, while aiming at what is far.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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