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Emile Zola: Art is a...

Emile Zola: Art is a...

Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Sinclair Lewis: Don't be a...

Sinclair Lewis: Don't be a...

Don't be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.

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William Golding: Marx, Darwin and...

William Golding: Marx, Darwin and...

Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western World. Simplistic popularization of their...

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Nelson Algren: The Impossible Generalized...

Nelson Algren: The Impossible Generalized...

The Impossible Generalized Man is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy...

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F Scott Fitzgerald: Vitality shows not...

F Scott Fitzgerald: Vitality shows not...

Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist, but in the ability to start over.

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Anatole France: A good critic...

Anatole France: A good critic...

A good critic is one who narrates the adventures of his mind among masterpieces.

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Henry James, Jr: She felt in...

Henry James, Jr: She felt in...

She felt in italics and thought in capitals.

Source: In Correct Quotes for DOS,...

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Dorothy L Sayers: Books . ....

Dorothy L Sayers: Books . ....

Books . . . are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as...

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Elizabeth Bowen: Experience isn't interesting...

Elizabeth Bowen: Experience isn't interesting...

Experience isn't interesting till it begins to repeat itself - in fact, till it does that, it hardly is...

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Natalia Ginzburg: When I write...

Natalia Ginzburg: When I write...

When I write stories I am like someone who is in her own country, walking along streets that she has known since she...

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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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Mickey Spillane: Those big-shot writers...

Mickey Spillane: Those big-shot writers...

Those big-shot writers could never dig the fact that there are more salted peanuts consumed than...

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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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Elias Canetti: The self-explorer, whether...

Elias Canetti: The self-explorer, whether...

The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but...

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Beatrix Potter: Thank goodness I...

Beatrix Potter: Thank goodness I...

Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the...

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Max Eastman: A joke is...

Max Eastman: A joke is...

A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible...

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Francois LaRochefoucauld: Nothing is impossible;...

Francois LaRochefoucauld: Nothing is impossible;...

Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have...

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Artemus Ward: Let us all...

Artemus Ward: Let us all...

Let us all be happy, and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it...

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Meister Eckhart: The more we...

Meister Eckhart: The more we...

The more we have the less we own.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Anne Sullivan: Obedience is the...

Anne Sullivan: Obedience is the...

Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the...

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