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Ariel Durant: Only a fool...

Ariel Durant: Only a fool...

Only a fool would try to compress a hundred centuries into a hundred pages of hazardous conclusions. We...

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Ian Fleming: A horse is...

Ian Fleming: A horse is...

A horse is dangerous at both ends and uncomfortable in the middle.

Source: In...

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Gertrude Stein: One does not...

Gertrude Stein: One does not...

One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.

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Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach: If you have...

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach: If you have...

If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty.

Source: Aph, 1905.
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Mark Twain: It was enough...

Mark Twain: It was enough...

It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.

Source: Huck Finn in The...

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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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Henry James, Jr: The power to...

Henry James, Jr: The power to...

The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the...

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John Galsworthy: The beginnings and...

John Galsworthy: The beginnings and...

The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.

Source: In The...

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Richard Hughes: Do your bit...

Richard Hughes: Do your bit...

Do your bit to save humanity from lapsing back into barbarity by reading all the novels you...

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Marguerite Duras: I see journalists...

Marguerite Duras: I see journalists...

I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is...

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Mary Renault: You can make...

Mary Renault: You can make...

You can make an audience see nearly anything, if you yourself believe in it.

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Elizabeth Bowen: One can live...

Elizabeth Bowen: One can live...

One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.

Source: The Heat of the...

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Eudora Welty: What I do...

Eudora Welty: What I do...

What I do in the writing of any character is to try to enter into the mind, heart and skin of a human being who is not...

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Robertson Davies: The most original...

Robertson Davies: The most original...

The most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also his most difficult...

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Robertson Davies: Few people can...

Robertson Davies: Few people can...

Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.

Source: Dylan Thomas...

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Mark Twain: The right word...

Mark Twain: The right word...

The right word may be effective but no word was ever as effective as rightly timed pause.

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Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach: In youth we...

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach: In youth we...

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Source: Aphorisms, 1905.
-- Marie von...

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Henry Miller: If we are...

Henry Miller: If we are...

If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One's destination is never a...

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William Makepeace Thackeray: Let the man...

William Makepeace Thackeray: Let the man...

Let the man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world...

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Fay Weldon: The desire for...

Fay Weldon: The desire for...

The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting...

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