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Elizabeth Bowen: Silences have a...

Elizabeth Bowen: Silences have a...

Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.

Source: The House in Paris,...

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Annie Dillard: I startled a...

Annie Dillard: I startled a...

I startled a weasel who startled me, and we exchanged a long glance. . . . Our eyes locked, and someone threw away the...

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Edgar Watson Howe: I try to...

Edgar Watson Howe: I try to...

I try to have no plans the failure of which would greatly annoy me. Half the unhappiness in the world is due to the...

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G K Chesterton: One sees great...

G K Chesterton: One sees great...

One sees great things from the valley, only small things from the peak.

Source:...

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Marcus Fabius Quintilian: We must form...

Marcus Fabius Quintilian: We must form...

We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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A E Housman: The goal stands...

A E Housman: The goal stands...

The goal stands up, the keeper
Stands up to keep the goal.


Source: A Shropshire...

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S I Hayakawa: If you see...

S I Hayakawa: If you see...

If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of...

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Annie Dillard: Appealing workplaces are...

Annie Dillard: Appealing workplaces are...

Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the...

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Katherine Mansfield: The pleasure of...

Katherine Mansfield: The pleasure of...

The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same...

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Flannery O'Connor: I am not...

Flannery O'Connor: I am not...

I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be...

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Iris Murdoch: All artists dream...

Iris Murdoch: All artists dream...

All artists dream of a silence which they must enter, as some creatures return to the sea to...

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Ellen Glasgow: To teach one's...

Ellen Glasgow: To teach one's...

To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice.

Source: The Woman Within,...

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Ellen Glasgow: I suppose I...

Ellen Glasgow: I suppose I...

I suppose I am a born novelist, for the things that I imagine are more vital and vivid to me than the things I...

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Ellen Glasgow: No matter how...

Ellen Glasgow: No matter how...

No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless...

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Ellen Glasgow: A tragic irony...

Ellen Glasgow: A tragic irony...

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which...

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Harriet Beecher Stowe: Everyone confesses that...

Harriet Beecher Stowe: Everyone confesses that...

Everyone confesses that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us; but most...

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Jerome K Jerome: It is impossible...

Jerome K Jerome: It is impossible...

It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.

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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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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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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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