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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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Louis L'Amour: No memory is...

Louis L'Amour: No memory is...

No memory is ever alone; it's at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own...

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Eudora Welty: What I do...

Eudora Welty: What I do...

What I do in the writing of any character is to try to enter into the mind, heart and skin of a human being who is not...

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Elias Canetti: The process of...

Elias Canetti: The process of...

The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single...

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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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Ian Fleming: I shall not...

Ian Fleming: I shall not...

I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Source:...

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Fawn M Brodie: There is, of...

Fawn M Brodie: There is, of...

There is, of course, a gold mine or a buried treasure on every mortgaged homestead. Whether the farmer ever digs for...

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Robertson Davies: Few people can...

Robertson Davies: Few people can...

Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.

Source: Dylan Thomas...

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R S Surtees: More people are...

R S Surtees: More people are...

More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice.

Source: In...

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Elias Canetti: The self-explorer, whether...

Elias Canetti: The self-explorer, whether...

The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but...

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Elias Canetti: The profoundest thoughts...

Elias Canetti: The profoundest thoughts...

The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle about them. A lot disappears in order for...

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Elias Canetti: One should use...

Elias Canetti: One should use...

One should use praise to recognize what one is not.

Source: The Secret Heart of the...

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Henry James, Jr: The power to...

Henry James, Jr: The power to...

The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the...

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Ashley Montagu: One goes through...

Ashley Montagu: One goes through...

One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a...

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Carlos Castaneda: Conclusions arrived at...

Carlos Castaneda: Conclusions arrived at...

Conclusions arrived at through reasoning have very little or no influence in altering the course of our...

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M F K Fisher: People ask me:...

M F K Fisher: People ask me:...

People ask me: Why do you write about food, and eating, and drinking? Why don't you write about the struggle for power...

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Paul Tournier: Recounting of a...

Paul Tournier: Recounting of a...

Recounting of a life story, a mind thinking aloud ... leads one inevitably to the consideration of problems which are...

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Adelle Davis: Nutrition . ....

Adelle Davis: Nutrition . ....

Nutrition . . . has been kicked around like a puppy that cannot take care of itself. Food faddists and crackpots have...

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William Osler: In science the...

William Osler: In science the...

In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first...

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William Harvey: [M]emory cannot exist...

William Harvey: [M]emory cannot exist...

[M]emory cannot exist without endurance of the things perceived, and the thing perceived cannot remain where it has...

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