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Thomas Mann: A great truth...

Thomas Mann: A great truth...

A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.

Source: Essay on...

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John LeCarre: I move my...

John LeCarre: I move my...

I move my lips when I read -- I'm painfully slow -- so I like really good English.

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Richard Bach: [T]here is such...

Richard Bach: [T]here is such...

[T]here is such a thing as perfection . . . and our purpose for living is to find that perfection and show it forth ....

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Peter De Vries: Everybody hates me...

Peter De Vries: Everybody hates me...

Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked.

Source: The narrator, Joe...

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Artemus Ward: It ain't so...

Artemus Ward: It ain't so...

It ain't so much what people don't know that hurts as what they know that ain't so.

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Italo Calvino: The struggle of...

Italo Calvino: The struggle of...

The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the...

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Joseph Heller: When I grow...

Joseph Heller: When I grow...

When I grow up I want to be a little boy.

Source: Something Happened.
-- Joseph...

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A E Housman: Even when poetry...

A E Housman: Even when poetry...

Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out . . . Perfect understanding...

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Robertson Davies: A truly great...

Robertson Davies: A truly great...

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be...

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Charles Buxton: To make pleasures...

Charles Buxton: To make pleasures...

To make pleasures pleasant, shorten them.

Source:
-- Charles Buxton, ( ...

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Charles Buxton: Self-laudation abounds among...

Charles Buxton: Self-laudation abounds among...

Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as...

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Natalie Clifford Barney: Why grab possessions...

Natalie Clifford Barney: Why grab possessions...

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise...

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Dr Seuss: You can get...

Dr Seuss: You can get...

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a...

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Dr Seuss: Today was good.<br>Today...

Dr Seuss: Today was good.
Today...

Today was good.
Today was fun.
Tomorrow is another one.


Source: In Webster's...

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Konrad Lorenz: Barking dogs may...

Konrad Lorenz: Barking dogs may...

Barking dogs may occasionally bite, but laughing men hardly ever shoot.

Source: In...

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James A Froude: You cannot dream...

James A Froude: You cannot dream...

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

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A J P Taylor: He was what...

A J P Taylor: He was what...

He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history; and like most of those...

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Theodore H White: He is like...

Theodore H White: He is like...

He is like a good prewar house solidly built. They don't build them that way anymore. He's also been repainted several...

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Cleveland Amory: Opera is like...

Cleveland Amory: Opera is like...

Opera is like a husband with a foreign title: expensive to support, hard to understand, and therefore a supreme social...

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George Sand: He who draws...

George Sand: He who draws...

He who draws noble delights from the sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all...

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