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Maria Montessori: The greatness of...

Maria Montessori: The greatness of...

The greatness of the human personality begins at the hour of birth. From this almost mystic affirmation there comes...

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Booker T Washington: No greater injury...

Booker T Washington: No greater injury...

No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will...

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Thomas Carlyle: A man lives...

Thomas Carlyle: A man lives...

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

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Francois LaRochefoucauld: Commonplace minds usually...

Francois LaRochefoucauld: Commonplace minds usually...

Commonplace minds usually condemn what is beyond the reach of their understanding.

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Marcel Proust: If a little...

Marcel Proust: If a little...

If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the...

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Dorothy L Sayers: Those who make...

Dorothy L Sayers: Those who make...

Those who make some other person their job . . . are dangerous.

Source: In The...

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George Sand: The trade of...

George Sand: The trade of...

The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.

Source: Letter,...

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Ellen Glasgow: I suppose I...

Ellen Glasgow: I suppose I...

I suppose I am a born novelist, for the things that I imagine are more vital and vivid to me than the things I...

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Sarah Orne Jewett: Tact is after...

Sarah Orne Jewett: Tact is after...

Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.

Source: The Country of the Pointed Firs...

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Ian Fleming: A woman should...

Ian Fleming: A woman should...

A woman should be an illusion.

Source: Life of Ian Fleming, by John Pearson.
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Ian Fleming: My mental hands...

Ian Fleming: My mental hands...

My mental hands were empty, and I felt I must do something as a counterirritant or antibody to my hysterical alarm at...

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Francois Rabelais: Give the enemy...

Francois Rabelais: Give the enemy...

Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending it.

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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.

Source:...

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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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Margaret Atwood: Popular art is...

Margaret Atwood: Popular art is...

Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself.

Source: AQuestion...

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Kingsley Amis: The ideal of...

Kingsley Amis: The ideal of...

The ideal of brotherhood of man, the building of the Just City, is one that cannot be discarded without lifelong...

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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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Harper Lee: Never, never, never,...

Harper Lee: Never, never, never,...

Never, never, never, on cross-examination ask a witness a question you don't already know the answer to . . . . Do it,...

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Max Eastman: A poet in...

Max Eastman: A poet in...

A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke.

Source: In The...

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Samuel Smiles: The wise man....

Samuel Smiles: The wise man....

The wise man. . . if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.

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