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Ishmael Reed: Regardless of the...

Ishmael Reed: Regardless of the...

Regardless of the criticisms I receive from the left, the right and the middle, I think it's important to maintain a...

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Robert Stone: I write a...

Robert Stone: I write a...

I write a very rough first draft of every chapter, then I rewrite every chapter. I try to get it down in the first...

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Natalie Clifford Barney: It is time...

Natalie Clifford Barney: It is time...

It is time for dead languages to be quiet.

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

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Eudora Welty: Writing fiction has...

Eudora Welty: Writing fiction has...

Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to...

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Ian Fleming: Once is happenstance,...

Ian Fleming: Once is happenstance,...

Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action.

Source:...

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Beatrix Potter: Thank goodness I...

Beatrix Potter: Thank goodness I...

Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the...

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John Galsworthy: A man of...

John Galsworthy: A man of...

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

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Emile Zola: I am little...

Emile Zola: I am little...

I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life,...

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Arthur Conan Doyle: Violence does, in...

Arthur Conan Doyle: Violence does, in...

Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for...

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Milan Kundera: A novel that...

Milan Kundera: A novel that...

A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only...

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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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Robert Penn Warren: I've been to...

Robert Penn Warren: I've been to...

I've been to a lot of places and done a lot of things, but writing was always first. It's a kind of pain I can't do...

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James Bryce: Three-fourths of the...

James Bryce: Three-fourths of the...

Three-fourths of the mistakes a man makes are made because he does not really know what he thinks he...

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Adlai Stevenson: There are no...

Adlai Stevenson: There are no...

There are no gains without pains.

Source: Speech, Chicago, 26 Jul 1952.
-- Adlai...

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Claudius: To do nothing...

Claudius: To do nothing...

To do nothing evil is good; to wish nothing evil is better.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Charles V: My cousin Francis...

Charles V: My cousin Francis...

My cousin Francis and I are in perfect accord - he wants Milan, and so do I.

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Nancy Reagan: A woman is...

Nancy Reagan: A woman is...

A woman is like a tea bag -- you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot...

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Nancy Reagan: I don't think...

Nancy Reagan: I don't think...

I don't think most people associate me with leeches or how to get them off. But I know how to get them off. I'm an...

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Rachel Donaldson Jackson: I would rather...

Rachel Donaldson Jackson: I would rather...

I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of God than live in that palace at Washington.

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Abigail Adams: A little of...

Abigail Adams: A little of...

A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the...

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