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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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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: 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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John Dalberg Acton: There is no...

John Dalberg Acton: There is no...

There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.

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James Harvey Robinson: Partisanship is our...

James Harvey Robinson: Partisanship is our...

Partisanship is our great curse. We too readily assume that everything has two sides and that it is our duty to be on...

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Cornelius Nepos: So that he...

Cornelius Nepos: So that he...

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

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Arnold (Joseph) Toynbee: I do not...

Arnold (Joseph) Toynbee: I do not...

I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of...

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Henry Brooks Adams: Everyone carries his...

Henry Brooks Adams: Everyone carries his...

Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuse himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he...

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George Bancroft: Beauty is but...

George Bancroft: Beauty is but...

Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral...

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