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Henry James, Jr: I hate American...

Henry James, Jr: I hate American...

I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name...

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Henry James, Jr: I don't want...

Henry James, Jr: I don't want...

I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.

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Ellen Glasgow: To teach one's...

Ellen Glasgow: To teach one's...

To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice.

Source: The Woman Within,...

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Ellen Glasgow: I suppose I...

Ellen Glasgow: I suppose I...

I suppose I am a born novelist, for the things that I imagine are more vital and vivid to me than the things I...

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Max Eastman: A liberal mind...

Max Eastman: A liberal mind...

A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything.

Source:...

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Jerome K Jerome: Mere bald fabrication...

Jerome K Jerome: Mere bald fabrication...

Mere bald fabrication is useless; the veriest tyro [fisherman] can manage that. It is in the circumstantial detail,...

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Ishmael Reed: No one says...

Ishmael Reed: No one says...

No one says a novel has to be one thing. It can be anything it wants to be, a vaudeville show, the six o'clock news,...

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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: Every decision is...

Elias Canetti: Every decision is...

Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with...

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Elias Canetti: When you write...

Elias Canetti: When you write...

When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard...

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Aesop: Example is the...

Aesop: Example is the...

Example is the best precept.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Aesop: Little by little...

Aesop: Little by little...

Little by little does the trick.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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John Dalberg Acton: Be more severe...

John Dalberg Acton: Be more severe...

Be more severe to ideas than to actions; do not over look the strength of the bad cause or the weakness of the...

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James Harvey Robinson: Partisanship is our...

James Harvey Robinson: Partisanship is our...

Partisanship is our great curse. We too readily assume that everything has two sides and that it is our duty to be on...

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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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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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James Allen: The law of...

James Allen: The law of...

The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap 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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