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Isaac Watts: Speak softly. It...

Isaac Watts: Speak softly. It...

Speak softly. It is far better to rule by love than fear.
Speak softly. Let no harsh words mar the good we may do...

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Georg Hegel: No man is...

Georg Hegel: No man is...

No man is a hero to his valet. This is not because the hero is no hero, but because the valet is a...

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Gaston Bachelard: The words of...

Gaston Bachelard: The words of...

The words of the world want to make sentences.

Source: The Poetics of Reverie, ch....

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Henry James, Jr: The advantage, the...

Henry James, Jr: The advantage, the...

The advantage, the luxury, as well as the torment of the novelist, is that there is no limit to what he may attempt-...

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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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Mary Renault: How can people...

Mary Renault: How can people...

How can people trust the harvest, unless they see it sown?

Source: The King Must...

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F Scott Fitzgerald: To write it,...

F Scott Fitzgerald: To write it,...

To write it, it took three months; to conceive it -- three minutes; to collect the data in it -- all my...

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Henry James, Jr: I don't want...

Henry James, Jr: I don't want...

I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.

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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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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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Flannery O'Connor: The novel is...

Flannery O'Connor: The novel is...

The novel is an art form and when you use it for anything other than art, you pervert it.

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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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Max Eastman: Emotion is the...

Max Eastman: Emotion is the...

Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the...

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William McFee: A man must...

William McFee: A man must...

A man must let his ideas grow, not be continually rooting them up to see how they are getting...

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Mickey Spillane: If the public...

Mickey Spillane: If the public...

If the public likes you, you're good. Shakespeare was a common, down-to-earth writer in his...

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Samuel Smiles: We often discover...

Samuel Smiles: We often discover...

We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a...

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Fawn M Brodie: There is, of...

Fawn M Brodie: There is, of...

There is, of course, a gold mine or a buried treasure on every mortgaged homestead. Whether the farmer ever digs for...

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Daniel Defoe: It is better...

Daniel Defoe: It is better...

It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of...

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Francois Rabelais: In their rules...

Francois Rabelais: In their rules...

In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.

Source: Referring to...

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Milan Kundera: A novel that...

Milan Kundera: A novel that...

A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only...

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