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Martin Tupper: It is sure...

Martin Tupper: It is sure...

It is sure to be dark if you shut your eyes.

Source: In Wisdom of the Ages at Your...

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Peter Ustinov: Books, I don't...

Peter Ustinov: Books, I don't...

Books, I don't know what you see in them . . . I can understand a person reading them, but I can't for the life of me...

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Jack Benny: I don't deserve...

Jack Benny: I don't deserve...

I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either.

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Milan Kundera: High culture is...

Milan Kundera: High culture is...

High culture is nothing but a child of that European perversion called history, the obsession we have with going...

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Milan Kundera: Without the meditative...

Milan Kundera: Without the meditative...

Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, ahistorical accidents, soon...

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Anatole France: An education isn't...

Anatole France: An education isn't...

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate...

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Natalie Clifford Barney: Novels are longer...

Natalie Clifford Barney: Novels are longer...

Novels are longer than life.

Source: In Adam, no. 299, On Writing and Writers,...

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Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach: Even a stopped...

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach: Even a stopped...

Even a stopped clock is right twice every day. After some years, it can boast of a long series of...

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Joseph Heller: Some men are...

Joseph Heller: Some men are...

Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon...

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G K Chesterton: The fatal metaphor...

G K Chesterton: The fatal metaphor...

The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth,...

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Peter De Vries: Words fashioned with...

Peter De Vries: Words fashioned with...

Words fashioned with somewhat over precise diction are like shapes turned out by a cookie...

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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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Antoine de Saint-Exupery: Let a man...

Antoine de Saint-Exupery: Let a man...

Let a man in a garret but burn with enough tensity and he will set fire to the whole...

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Aldous Huxley: Facts do not...

Aldous Huxley: Facts do not...

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Source: Proper Studies,...

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Aldous Huxley: Every ceiling, when...

Aldous Huxley: Every ceiling, when...

Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive...

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Charles Dickens: Which fiddle-strings is...

Charles Dickens: Which fiddle-strings is...

Which fiddle-strings is weakness to expredge my nerves this night!

Source: (Mrs...

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Robert Nathan: There is no...

Robert Nathan: There is no...

There is no distance on this earth as far away as yesterday.

Source: So Love...

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Mary Todd Lincoln: Beautiful, glorious Scotland,...

Mary Todd Lincoln: Beautiful, glorious Scotland,...

Beautiful, glorious Scotland, has spoilt me for every other country!

Source:...

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Hillary Rodham Clinton: Women are always...

Hillary Rodham Clinton: Women are always...

Women are always being tested . . . but ultimately, each of us has to define who we are individually and then do the...

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Patrick Buchanan: The food that...

Patrick Buchanan: The food that...

The food that enters the mind must be watched as closely as the food that enters the body.

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