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Katherine Mansfield: Risk! Risk anything!...

Katherine Mansfield: Risk! Risk anything!...

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you....

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Iris Murdoch: We live in...

Iris Murdoch: We live in...

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find...

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Carolyn Wells: A cynic is...

Carolyn Wells: A cynic is...

A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye.

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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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Mickey Spillane: Those big-shot writers...

Mickey Spillane: Those big-shot writers...

Those big-shot writers could never dig the fact that there are more salted peanuts consumed than...

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Robert Stone: I am trying...

Robert Stone: I am trying...

I am trying - in a good cause - to crowd people out of their own minds and occupy their space. I want them to stop...

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Louis L'Amour: One never realizes...

Louis L'Amour: One never realizes...

One never realizes how much and how little he knows until he starts talking.

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Natalie Clifford Barney: Fatalism is the...

Natalie Clifford Barney: Fatalism is the...

Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the evitable.

Source: In The Amazon of...

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Eudora Welty: Writing fiction has...

Eudora Welty: Writing fiction has...

Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to...

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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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Kenneth Grahame: Well, well, perhaps...

Kenneth Grahame: Well, well, perhaps...

Well, well, perhaps I am a bit of a talker. A popular fellow such as I am --my friends get round me --we chaff, we...

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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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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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Francois Rabelais: Not everyone is...

Francois Rabelais: Not everyone is...

Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.

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Francois LaRochefoucauld: Hope is the...

Francois LaRochefoucauld: Hope is the...

Hope is the last thing that dies in man; and though it be exceedingly deceitful, yet it is of this good use to us,...

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Francois LaRochefoucauld: Nothing is impossible;...

Francois LaRochefoucauld: Nothing is impossible;...

Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have...

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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.

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Stephen Potter: A good general...

Stephen Potter: A good general...

A good general rule is to state that the bouquet is better than the taste, and vice versa.

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Artemus Ward: Draw your salary...

Artemus Ward: Draw your salary...

Draw your salary before spending it.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Italo Calvino: Myth is the...

Italo Calvino: Myth is the...

Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there are as yet...

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