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Gustave Flaubert: There is not...

Gustave Flaubert: There is not...

There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.

Source: In...

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Hermann Hesse: Everything becomes a...

Hermann Hesse: Everything becomes a...

Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.

Source: In...

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Margaret Mitchell: I'm tired of...

Margaret Mitchell: I'm tired of...

I'm tired of saying, How wonderful you are! to fool men who haven't got one-half the sense I've got, and I'm tired of...

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Ivy Compton-Burnett: People who have...

Ivy Compton-Burnett: People who have...

People who have power respond simply. They have no minds but their own.

Source: In...

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Marcel Proust: The mistakes made...

Marcel Proust: The mistakes made...

The mistakes made by doctors are innumerable. They err habitually on the side of optimism as to treatment, of...

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Natalia Ginzburg: When I write...

Natalia Ginzburg: When I write...

When I write stories I am like someone who is in her own country, walking along streets that she has known since she...

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Jessamyn West: A rattlesnake that...

Jessamyn West: A rattlesnake that...

A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing.

Source: The Life I Really...

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Sarah Orne Jewett: Tact is after...

Sarah Orne Jewett: Tact is after...

Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.

Source: The Country of the Pointed Firs...

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Ishmael Reed: Writing has made...

Ishmael Reed: Writing has made...

Writing has made me a better man. It has put me in contact with those fleeting moments which prove the...

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Robert Fulghum: All I really...

Robert Fulghum: All I really...

All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Remember the...

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Samuel Smiles: We often discover...

Samuel Smiles: We often discover...

We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a...

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Fawn M Brodie: Show me a...

Fawn M Brodie: Show me a...

Show me a character whose life arouses my curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with...

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John Mortimer: When you get...

John Mortimer: When you get...

When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the...

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Eden Phillpotts: The universe is...

Eden Phillpotts: The universe is...

The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

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Boris Pasternak: I don't like...

Boris Pasternak: I don't like...

I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life...

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George Meredith: Kissing don't last:...

George Meredith: Kissing don't last:...

Kissing don't last: cookery do!

Source: Mrs. Berry, in The Ordeal of Richard...

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Marcus Tullius Cicero: He cannot be...

Marcus Tullius Cicero: He cannot be...

He cannot be strict in judging, who does not wish others to be strict judges of himself.

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Benjamin Harrison: Will it not...

Benjamin Harrison: Will it not...

Will it not be wise to allow the friendship between nations to rest upon deep and permanent things? . . . Irritations...

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Benjamin Harrison: Great lives never...

Benjamin Harrison: Great lives never...

Great lives never go out; they go on.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic Reference...

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John Buchan: What would you...

John Buchan: What would you...

'What would you call the highest happiness?' Wratislaw was asked. 'The sense of competence,' was the answer, given...

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