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Annie Dillard: You can't test...

Annie Dillard: You can't test...

You can't test courage cautiously.

Source: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, ch. 6,...

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Ayn Rand: The hardest thing...

Ayn Rand: The hardest thing...

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to...

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Jerome K Jerome: Mere bald fabrication...

Jerome K Jerome: Mere bald fabrication...

Mere bald fabrication is useless; the veriest tyro [fisherman] can manage that. It is in the circumstantial detail,...

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Jerome K Jerome: I like work:...

Jerome K Jerome: I like work:...

I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me: the idea of getting rid of...

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Ishmael Reed: Writing has made...

Ishmael Reed: Writing has made...

Writing has made me a better man. It has put me in contact with those fleeting moments which prove the...

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Ishmael Reed: I try to...

Ishmael Reed: I try to...

I try to do what has never been done before.

Source: In African-American Writers,...

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Ishmael Reed: No one says...

Ishmael Reed: No one says...

No one says a novel has to be one thing. It can be anything it wants to be, a vaudeville show, the six o'clock news,...

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Alvin Toffler: It is better...

Alvin Toffler: It is better...

It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.

Source: In The...

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Alvin Toffler: Man has a...

Alvin Toffler: Man has a...

Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future...

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Carolyn Wells: A blunder at...

Carolyn Wells: A blunder at...

A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness at the wrong time.

Source:...

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Osbert Sitwell: Poetry is like...

Osbert Sitwell: Poetry is like...

Poetry is like fish: if it's fresh, it's good; if it's stale, it's bad; and if you're not certain, try it on the...

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Homer: Many shining actions...

Homer: Many shining actions...

Many shining actions owe their success to chance, though the general or statesman receive the...

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Louis L'Amour: It is often...

Louis L'Amour: It is often...

It is often said that one has but one life to live, but that is nonsense. For one who reads, there is no limit to the...

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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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Elias Canetti: Success is the...

Elias Canetti: Success is the...

Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence.

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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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Aesop: Example is the...

Aesop: Example is the...

Example is the best precept.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Aesop: Kindness effects more...

Aesop: Kindness effects more...

Kindness effects more than severity.

Source: 'The Wind and the Sun'
-- Aesop, ( ...

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Aesop: He that always...

Aesop: He that always...

He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.

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Dorothy L Sayers: There certainly does...

Dorothy L Sayers: There certainly does...

There certainly does seem a possibility that the detective story will come to an end, simply because the public will...

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