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Jacob Bronowski: Einstein was a...

Jacob Bronowski: Einstein was a...

Einstein was a man who could ask immensely simple questions. And what his work showed is that when the answers are...

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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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Jean Toomer: Most novices picture...

Jean Toomer: Most novices picture...

Most novices picture themselves as masters - and are content with the picture. This is why there are so few...

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Lin Yutang: If you can...

Lin Yutang: If you can...

If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to...

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Claude Brown: Man, you not...

Claude Brown: Man, you not...

Man, you not givin' us another chance. You givin' us the same chance we had before.

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Van Wyck Brooks: Genius and virtue...

Van Wyck Brooks: Genius and virtue...

Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.

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Northrop Frye: Between religion's this...

Northrop Frye: Between religion's this...

Between religion's this is and poetry's but suppose this is, there must always be some kind of tension, until the...

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Alfred Victor Vigny: The true God,...

Alfred Victor Vigny: The true God,...

The true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas.

Source: La Bouteille A la...

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Victor Hugo: Genius is a...

Victor Hugo: Genius is a...

Genius is a promontory jutting out of the infinite.

Source: In Best Quotations for...

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Victor Hugo: Forty is the...

Victor Hugo: Forty is the...

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty, the youth of old age.

Source: In The...

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Jean-Paul Sartre: Like all dreamers,...

Jean-Paul Sartre: Like all dreamers,...

Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.

Source: Les Mots.
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May Sarton: Anyone who is...

May Sarton: Anyone who is...

Anyone who is going to be a writer knows enough at 15 to write several novels.

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May Sarton: In a total...

May Sarton: In a total...

In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place.

Source: Mrs....

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Nikki Giovanni: It's not a...

Nikki Giovanni: It's not a...

It's not a ladder we're climbing, it's literature we're producing. . . . We cannot possibly leave it to history as a...

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Louise Erdrich: In our own...

Louise Erdrich: In our own...

In our own beginnings, we are formed out of the body's interior landscape, For a short while, our mothers' bodies are...

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William Gilbert: If you wish...

William Gilbert: If you wish...

If you wish in this world to advance,
Your merits you're bound to enhance;
You must stir it and stump it,
and...

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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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Beth Henley: I find it...

Beth Henley: I find it...

I find it fascinating to think about what the world is going to be like when people won't talk...

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Menander: He who labors...

Menander: He who labors...

He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and...

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Edward Albee: What people really...

Edward Albee: What people really...

What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.

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