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Edward Rickenbacker: Courage is doing...

Edward Rickenbacker: Courage is doing...

Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.

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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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F Scott Fitzgerald: Never confuse a...

F Scott Fitzgerald: Never confuse a...

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Colette: You do not...

Colette: You do not...

You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Source: My Apprenticeships,...

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Colette: You will do...

Colette: You will do...

You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Daniel Defoe: It is better...

Daniel Defoe: It is better...

It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of...

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Elias Canetti: All the things...

Elias Canetti: All the things...

All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.

Source: Die Provinz der...

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Sinclair Lewis: Our American professors...

Sinclair Lewis: Our American professors...

Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.

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Margaret Atwood: If the national...

Margaret Atwood: If the national...

If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid...

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Mary Stewart: But I have...

Mary Stewart: But I have...

But I have noticed this about ambitious men, or men in power -- they fear even the slightest and least likely threat...

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Anatole France: Man is so...

Anatole France: Man is so...

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labour by taking up...

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Elizabeth Bowen: Some people are...

Elizabeth Bowen: Some people are...

Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.

Source:...

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Anais Nin: We do not...

Anais Nin: We do not...

We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another, unevenly. We grow...

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George Sand: Try to keep...

George Sand: Try to keep...

Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age, and to imagine right up to the brink of death that life...

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Iris Murdoch: A bad review...

Iris Murdoch: A bad review...

A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.

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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: My dreams were...

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: My dreams were...

My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed -- my dearest pleasure...

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Mickey Spillane: If you're a...

Mickey Spillane: If you're a...

If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's...

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Nathaniel Hawthorne: Yesterday I visited...

Nathaniel Hawthorne: Yesterday I visited...

Yesterday I visited the British Museum; an exceedingly tiresome affair. It quite crushes a person to see so much at...

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Richard Wright: Blues, spirituals, and...

Richard Wright: Blues, spirituals, and...

Blues, spirituals, and folk tales recounted from mouth to mouth . . . all these formed the channels through which the...

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Antonio Porchia: You do not...

Antonio Porchia: You do not...

You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.

Source:...

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