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Lillian Smith: The human heart...

Lillian Smith: The human heart...

The human heart does not stay away too long from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey to anguish that...

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Arthur Koestler: The progress of...

Arthur Koestler: The progress of...

The progress of science is strewn, like an ancient desert trail, with the bleached skeleton of discarded theories...

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Sir Walter Besant: I am afraid...

Sir Walter Besant: I am afraid...

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best...

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Alan Brien: New York waiters,...

Alan Brien: New York waiters,...

New York waiters, probably the surliest in the Western world . . . are better images of their city than that...

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Mark Twain: Life does not...

Mark Twain: Life does not...

Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought...

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Charles Dickens: What is the...

Charles Dickens: What is the...

What is the odds so long as the fire of soul is kindled at the taper of conwiviality, and the wing of friendship never...

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John LeCarre: The monsters of...

John LeCarre: The monsters of...

The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience,...

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Mark Twain: What a wee...

Mark Twain: What a wee...

What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and known to...

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Judith Viorst: Strength is the...

Judith Viorst: Strength is the...

Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands- and then eat just one of the...

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Annie Dillard: I woke in...

Annie Dillard: I woke in...

I woke in bits, like all children, piecemeal over the years. I discovered myself and the world, and forgot them, and...

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Annie Dillard: I noticed this...

Annie Dillard: I noticed this...

I noticed this process of waking, and predicted with terrifying logic that one of these years not far away I would be...

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Jessamyn West: To meet at...

Jessamyn West: To meet at...

To meet at all, one must open ones eyes to another; and there is no true conversation no matter how many words are...

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Jessamyn West: A taste for...

Jessamyn West: A taste for...

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor for it takes irony to appreciate the joke...

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Jessamyn West: If I were...

Jessamyn West: If I were...

If I were to join a circle of any kind, it would be one that required its members to try something new at least once a...

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Jessamyn West: Nothing is so...

Jessamyn West: Nothing is so...

Nothing is so dear as what you're about to leave.

Source: The Life I Really Lived,...

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Max Eastman: A poet in...

Max Eastman: A poet in...

A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke.

Source: In The...

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Jerome K Jerome: It is a...

Jerome K Jerome: It is a...

It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the...

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Jerome K Jerome: There is no...

Jerome K Jerome: There is no...

There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do.

Source: Idle Thoughts...

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Alvin Toffler: Our technological powers...

Alvin Toffler: Our technological powers...

Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also...

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Natalie Clifford Barney: Most virtue is...

Natalie Clifford Barney: Most virtue is...

Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

Source: Quoted in: My Country 'tis...

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