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Peter De Vries: I wanted to...

Peter De Vries: I wanted to...

I wanted to be bored to death, as good a way to go as any.

Source: Comfort me with...

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Anthony Powell: Few persons who...

Anthony Powell: Few persons who...

Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going...

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Mario Puzo: He's a businessman....

Mario Puzo: He's a businessman....

He's a businessman. I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.

Source: The Godfather,...

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John LeCarre: The monsters of...

John LeCarre: The monsters of...

The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience,...

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn: I am of...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: I am of...

I am of course confident that I will fulfill my tasks as a writer in all circumstances -- from my grave even more...

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Jane Austen: In every power,...

Jane Austen: In every power,...

In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the...

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Maxwell Maltz: You are embarking...

Maxwell Maltz: You are embarking...

You are embarking on the greatest adventure of your life -- to improve your self-image, to create more meaning in your...

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Lillian Carter: Sometimes when I...

Lillian Carter: Sometimes when I...

Sometimes when I look at all my children, I say to myself, Lillian, you should have stayed a...

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Lillian Carter: If I had...

Lillian Carter: If I had...

If I had one wish for my children, it would be that each of them would reach for goals that have meaning for them as...

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Hippocrates: The chief virtue...

Hippocrates: The chief virtue...

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar...

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Elizabeth Garrett Anderson: [My mother] speaks...

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson: [My mother] speaks...

[My mother] speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, etc. By the same...

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Emily Blackwell: Our school education...

Emily Blackwell: Our school education...

Our school education ignores, in a thousand ways, the rules of healthy development.

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Benjamin Rush: The turgid style...

Benjamin Rush: The turgid style...

The turgid style of Johnson, the purple glare of Gibbon, and even the studied and thickset metaphors of Junius are all...

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Austin O'Malley: Happiness is the...

Austin O'Malley: Happiness is the...

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

Source: In Correct Quotes for DOS,...

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Estelle Ramey: Anyone seeing women...

Estelle Ramey: Anyone seeing women...

Anyone seeing women at a bargain-basement sale where aggression is viewed as appropriate, even endearing, sees...

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Erasmus Darwin: Stroke follow strokes,...

Erasmus Darwin: Stroke follow strokes,...

Stroke follow strokes, the sparkling ingot shines,
Flows the red slag, the lengthening bar refines;
Cold waves,...

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Thomas Browne: All the wonders...

Thomas Browne: All the wonders...

All the wonders you seek are within yourself.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Ivan Pavlov: School yourself to...

Ivan Pavlov: School yourself to...

School yourself to demureness and patience. Learn to inure yourself to drudgery in science. Learn, compare, collect...

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Gerald Jampolsky: A truly creative...

Gerald Jampolsky: A truly creative...

A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.

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Henry David Thoreau: The poet is...

Henry David Thoreau: The poet is...

The poet is a man who lives at last by watching his moods. An old poet comes at last to watch his moods as narrowly as...

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