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Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach: Conquer but don't...

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach: Conquer but don't...

Conquer but don't triumph.

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

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Mary McCarthy: I suppose everyone...

Mary McCarthy: I suppose everyone...

I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think,...

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Charles Dickens: It is a...

Charles Dickens: It is a...

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

Source:...

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Marguerite Yourcenar: If I make...

Marguerite Yourcenar: If I make...

If I make it, I will carry a pencil instead of the ritual sword.

Source: On her...

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James Thurber: He knows all...

James Thurber: He knows all...

He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes.

Source: In Webster's...

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Alex Haley: Roots is not...

Alex Haley: Roots is not...

Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people.

Source:...

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Joyce Cary: It is a...

Joyce Cary: It is a...

It is a tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know -- the less a man knows, the more sure it is that...

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Emily Bronte: A good heart...

Emily Bronte: A good heart...

A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad. . . and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than...

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John Steinbeck: Writers are a...

John Steinbeck: Writers are a...

Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

Source: In...

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Salman Rushdie: I make no...

Salman Rushdie: I make no...

I make no complaint. I am a writer. I do not accept my condition; I will strive to change it; but I inhabit it, I am...

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Graham Henry Greene: My two fingers...

Graham Henry Greene: My two fingers...

My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course....

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George Eliot: Breed is stronger...

George Eliot: Breed is stronger...

Breed is stronger than pasture.

Source:
-- George Eliot, (Nov 22 1819-1880),...

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John Steinbeck: It has always...

John Steinbeck: It has always...

It has always been my private conviction that any man who pits his intelligence against a fish and losses has it...

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Mario Puzo: A lawyer with...

Mario Puzo: A lawyer with...

A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.

Source:...

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Alan Paton: I have one...

Alan Paton: I have one...

I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they (the whites of South Africa) have turned to loving, they...

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Graham Henry Greene: Cynicism is cheap...

Graham Henry Greene: Cynicism is cheap...

Cynicism is cheap -- you can buy it at any Monoprix store -- it's built into all poor-quality...

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Theodore Dreiser: Our civilization is...

Theodore Dreiser: Our civilization is...

Our civilization is still in the middle stage; scarcely beast, in that it is no longer wholly guided by instinct;...

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Lillian Smith: The human heart...

Lillian Smith: The human heart...

The human heart does not stay away too long from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey to anguish that...

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Alan Brien: New York waiters,...

Alan Brien: New York waiters,...

New York waiters, probably the surliest in the Western world . . . are better images of their city than that...

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Mark Twain: What is there...

Mark Twain: What is there...

What is there in Rome for me to see that others have not seen before me? What is there for me to touch that others...

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