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F Scott Fitzgerald: An idea ran...

F Scott Fitzgerald: An idea ran...

An idea ran back and forward in his head like a blind man, knocking over the solid...

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Dorothy L Sayers: A continual atmosphere...

Dorothy L Sayers: A continual atmosphere...

A continual atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your...

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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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Elizabeth Bowen: Meeting people unlike...

Elizabeth Bowen: Meeting people unlike...

Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is...

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Annie Dillard: I woke at...

Annie Dillard: I woke at...

I woke at intervals until . . . the intervals of waking tipped the scales, and I was more often awake than...

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Annie Dillard: No child on...

Annie Dillard: No child on...

No child on earth was ever meant to be ordinary, and you can see it in them, and they know it, too, but then the times...

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Harriet Beecher Stowe: Mothers are the...

Harriet Beecher Stowe: Mothers are the...

Mothers are the most instinctive philosophers.

Source: In Readers' Digest.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe: These words dropped...

Harriet Beecher Stowe: These words dropped...

These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think...

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Jessamyn West: A taste for...

Jessamyn West: A taste for...

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor for it takes irony to appreciate the joke...

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Alvin Toffler: One of the...

Alvin Toffler: One of the...

One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new...

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Francois LaRochefoucauld: We promise according...

Francois LaRochefoucauld: We promise according...

We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.

Source: In...

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Natalie Clifford Barney: Youth is not...

Natalie Clifford Barney: Youth is not...

Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.

Source: Samples...

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Natalie Clifford Barney: Would that well-thinking...

Natalie Clifford Barney: Would that well-thinking...

Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones.

Source: in...

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Arthur Conan Doyle: Mediocrity knows nothing...

Arthur Conan Doyle: Mediocrity knows nothing...

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.

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Arthur Conan Doyle: Detection is, or...

Arthur Conan Doyle: Detection is, or...

Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold unemotional manner. You have...

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Arthur Conan Doyle: You will, I...

Arthur Conan Doyle: You will, I...

You will, I am sure, agree with me that. . . if page 534 only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first...

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Arthur Conan Doyle: It is my...

Arthur Conan Doyle: It is my...

'It is my duty to warn you that it will be used against you,' cried the Inspector, with the magnificent fair play of...

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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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William Jennings Bryan: No one can...

William Jennings Bryan: No one can...

No one can earn a million dollars honestly.

Source: In 1,911 Best Things Anybody...

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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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