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Mary McCarthy: Every age has...

Mary McCarthy: Every age has...

Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.

Source: On the Contrary, pt. 1,...

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Fay Weldon: The desire for...

Fay Weldon: The desire for...

The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting...

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William Golding: Novelists do not...

William Golding: Novelists do not...

Novelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is part of the job that there should be much routine...

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Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach: In youth we...

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach: In youth we...

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Source: Aphorisms, 1905.
-- Marie von...

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Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach: Many a truth...

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach: Many a truth...

Many a truth sprang from an error.

Source: Aph, 1905.
-- Marie von...

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Fay Weldon: Worry less about...

Fay Weldon: Worry less about...

Worry less about what other people think about you, and more about what you think about...

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Dr Seuss: I like nonsense...

Dr Seuss: I like nonsense...

I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at...

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Dr Seuss: From there to...

Dr Seuss: From there to...

From there to here,
and here to there,
funny things are everywhere.


Source:...

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Italo Calvino: Biographical data, even...

Italo Calvino: Biographical data, even...

Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, are the most private things one has, and to declare...

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Robert Nathan: Beauty is ever...

Robert Nathan: Beauty is ever...

Beauty is ever to the lonely mind
A shadow fleeting; she is never plain.
She is a visitor who leaves...

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Robert Penn Warren: Poets, we know,...

Robert Penn Warren: Poets, we know,...

Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about...

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Samuel Smiles: Labor is still,...

Samuel Smiles: Labor is still,...

Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is...

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Samuel Smiles: The very greatest...

Samuel Smiles: The very greatest...

The very greatest things -- great thoughts, discoveries, inventions -- have usually been nurtured in hardship, often...

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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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John Galsworthy: Idealism increases in...

John Galsworthy: Idealism increases in...

Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.

Source:...

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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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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: An education isn't...

Anatole France: An education isn't...

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate...

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Colette: It is wise...

Colette: It is wise...

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.

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Natalia Ginzburg: Children should be...

Natalia Ginzburg: Children should be...

Children should be taught not the little virtues but the great ones. Not thrift but generosity and an indifference to...

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