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George Sand: One approaches the...

George Sand: One approaches the...

One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe.

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Iris Murdoch: Happiness is a...

Iris Murdoch: Happiness is a...

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with...

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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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Alice Walker: Expect nothing. Live...

Alice Walker: Expect nothing. Live...

Expect nothing. Live frugally
On surprise.


Source: Expect Nothing, Revolutionary...

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Mickey Spillane: I'm a commercial...

Mickey Spillane: I'm a commercial...

I'm a commercial writer, not an author. Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one...

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Honore de Balzac: The glory of...

Honore de Balzac: The glory of...

The glory of surgeons is like that of actors, who exist only in their lifetime and whose talent is no longer...

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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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Robertson Davies: The eye sees...

Robertson Davies: The eye sees...

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

Source: In Webster's...

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Robertson Davies: If I had...

Robertson Davies: If I had...

If I had my way books would not be written in English, but in an exceedingly difficult secret language that only...

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R S Surtees: He was a...

R S Surtees: He was a...

He was a gentleman who was generally spoken of as having nothing a-year, paid quarterly.

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Elias Canetti: The planet's survival...

Elias Canetti: The planet's survival...

The planet's survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts...

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Henry James, Jr: Ideas are, in...

Henry James, Jr: Ideas are, in...

Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes...

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Dorothy L Sayers: While time lasts...

Dorothy L Sayers: While time lasts...

While time lasts there will always be a future, and that future will hold both good and evil, since the world is made...

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William Hastie: There is no...

William Hastie: There is no...

There is no simplistic approach to worthwhile achievement in human affairs.

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Edward Coke: Precaution is better...

Edward Coke: Precaution is better...

Precaution is better than cure.

Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed....

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Thomas C Haliburton: Contentment is, after...

Thomas C Haliburton: Contentment is, after...

Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.

Source: In Correct Quotes for...

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John Selden: Humility is a...

John Selden: Humility is a...

Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice, and yet everybody is content to hear. The master thinks it good...

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Louis Nizer: A graceful taunt...

Louis Nizer: A graceful taunt...

A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults.

Source: In Correct Quotes for DOS,...

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Ralph Nader: The networks are...

Ralph Nader: The networks are...

The networks are not some chicken-coop manufacturing lobby whose calls nobody returns.

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Bella Abzug: The establishment is...

Bella Abzug: The establishment is...

The establishment is made up of little men, very frightened.

Source: In Bella!, by...

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