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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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J B Priestley: To show a...

J B Priestley: To show a...

To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own -- this is...

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J B Priestley: A lot of...

J B Priestley: A lot of...

A lot of men who have accepted - or had imposed upon them in boyhood - the old English public school styles of careful...

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J B Priestley: I'm in the...

J B Priestley: I'm in the...

I'm in the business of providing people with secondary satisfactions. It wouldn't have done me much good if they had...

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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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Titus Maccius Plautus: If you have...

Titus Maccius Plautus: If you have...

If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to...

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Dodie Smith: My imagination longs...

Dodie Smith: My imagination longs...

My imagination longs to dash ahead and plan developments; but I have noticed that when things happen in one's...

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Edward Albee: Good writers define...

Edward Albee: Good writers define...

Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more...

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Pierre de Beaumarchais: Where love is...

Pierre de Beaumarchais: Where love is...

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Source: Marriage of...

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Jean Racine: Day is not...

Jean Racine: Day is not...

Day is not purer than the depths of my heart. (Le jour n'est pas plus pur que le fond de mon...

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Edward Albee: You gotta have...

Edward Albee: You gotta have...

You gotta have swine to show you where the truffles are.

Source: Who's Afraid of...

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Alan Jay Lerner: Men die but...

Alan Jay Lerner: Men die but...

Men die but an idea does not.

Source: The Street Where I Live, 1978.
-- Alan Jay...

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Richard Brinsley Sheridan: He is indebted...

Richard Brinsley Sheridan: He is indebted...

He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.

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Richard Brinsley Sheridan: Remember that when...

Richard Brinsley Sheridan: Remember that when...

Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen,...

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If the Almighty...

If the Almighty...

If the Almighty himself played the violin, the credits would still read 'Rubinstein, God, and Piatigorsky', in that...

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Inspiration could be...

Inspiration could be...

Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced.

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A good composer...

A good composer...

A good composer does not imitate, he steals.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Edna St Vincent Millay: God, I can...

Edna St Vincent Millay: God, I can...

God, I can push the grass apart
And lay my finger on Thy heart!


Source: In The...

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Nikki Giovanni: If you don't...

Nikki Giovanni: If you don't...

If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.

Source: A...

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Robert Louis Stevenson: Our business in...

Robert Louis Stevenson: Our business in...

Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

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