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Harper Lee: Shoot all the...

Harper Lee: Shoot all the...

Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a...

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Richard Bach: It is by...

Richard Bach: It is by...

It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make room...

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Louis Auchincloss: Perfection irritates as...

Louis Auchincloss: Perfection irritates as...

Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life.

Source:...

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Charles Dickens: A wonderful fact...

Charles Dickens: A wonderful fact...

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to...

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Charles Dickens: He'd make a...

Charles Dickens: He'd make a...

He'd make a lovely corpse.

Source: Martin Chuzzlewit, Ch. 25
-- Charles Dickens,...

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Anthony Powell: Few persons who...

Anthony Powell: Few persons who...

Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going...

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Naomi Mitchison: It was as...

Naomi Mitchison: It was as...

It was as though there was a film going on inside my head, and I was watching it as it went by. I was completely...

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John LeCarre: A committee is...

John LeCarre: A committee is...

A committee is an animal with four back legs.

Source: Smiley, in Tinker, Tailor,...

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Francois Mauriac: A good critic...

Francois Mauriac: A good critic...

A good critic is the sorcerer that makes some hidden spring gush forth unexpectedly under our...

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Marcus Cato: I can pardon...

Marcus Cato: I can pardon...

I can pardon everyone's mistakes but my own.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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June Singer: Is it sufficient...

June Singer: Is it sufficient...

Is it sufficient that you have learned to drive the car, or shall we look and see what is under the hood? Most people...

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Maxwell Maltz: Close scrutiny will...

Maxwell Maltz: Close scrutiny will...

Close scrutiny will show that most crisis situations are opportunities to either advance, or stay where you...

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Cesare Lombroso: Unfortunately, goodness and...

Cesare Lombroso: Unfortunately, goodness and...

Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of...

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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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M F K Fisher: Dictionaries are always...

M F K Fisher: Dictionaries are always...

Dictionaries are always fun, but not always reassuring.

Source: Dubious Honors,...

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Adelle Davis: If this country...

Adelle Davis: If this country...

If this country [America] is to survive, the best-fed-nation myth had better be recognized for what it is: propaganda...

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Hippocrates: Life is short,...

Hippocrates: Life is short,...

Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult.

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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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Elizabeth Blackwell: Methods and conclusions...

Elizabeth Blackwell: Methods and conclusions...

Methods and conclusions formed by half the race only, must necessarily require revision as the other half of humanity...

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Claude Bernard: Art is I;...

Claude Bernard: Art is I;...

Art is I; science is we.

Source: In Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature...

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