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Rose Elizabeth Bird: It's always the...

Rose Elizabeth Bird: It's always the...

It's always the minorities who aren't a part of the mainstream who define what the limits . . . of the majority are...

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Clarence Darrow: The pursuit of...

Clarence Darrow: The pursuit of...

The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Source:...

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Clarence Darrow: I have never...

Clarence Darrow: I have never...

I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with a lot of pleasure.

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Claude Brown: Despite everything that...

Claude Brown: Despite everything that...

Despite everything that Harlem did to our generation, I think it gave something to a few. It gave them a strength that...

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Bergen Evans: Lying is an...

Bergen Evans: Lying is an...

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Source: From a collection...

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Anais Nin: Dreams pass into...

Anais Nin: Dreams pass into...

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the action stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the...

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Anais Nin: The shell is...

Anais Nin: The shell is...

The shell is America's most active contribution to the formation of character. A tough hide. Grow it...

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Ellen Glasgow: No idea is...

Ellen Glasgow: No idea is...

No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be...

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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: Invention, it must...

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: Invention, it must...

Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of voice, but out of...

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Alice Walker: Helped are those...

Alice Walker: Helped are those...

Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a...

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Osbert Sitwell: In reality, killing...

Osbert Sitwell: In reality, killing...

In reality, killing time/ Is only the name for another of the multifarious ways
By which Time kills...

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Natalie Clifford Barney: If we keep...

Natalie Clifford Barney: If we keep...

If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

Source: In Samples...

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Natalie Clifford Barney: Fatalism is the...

Natalie Clifford Barney: Fatalism is the...

Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the evitable.

Source: In The Amazon of...

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Eudora Welty: It had been...

Eudora Welty: It had been...

It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were...

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Anatole France: The books that...

Anatole France: The books that...

The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.

Source: In The...

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Anatole France: It is by...

Anatole France: It is by...

It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Elias Canetti: Someone who always...

Elias Canetti: Someone who always...

Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true.

Source:...

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William C Nell: Our brethren at...

William C Nell: Our brethren at...

Our brethren at the South should not be called slaves, but prisoners of war.

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William C Nell: I have borne...

William C Nell: I have borne...

I have borne allegiance to PRINCIPLES, rather than MEN.

Source: In The Liberator,...

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Theodore H White: Those 40 or...

Theodore H White: Those 40 or...

Those 40 or 50 national correspondents who had followed Kennedy since the beginning of his electoral exertions into...

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