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Sloan Wilson: It's not a...

Sloan Wilson: It's not a...

It's not a question of who's going to throw the first stone; it's a question of who's going to start building with...

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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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Charles Dickens: Minerva House was...

Charles Dickens: Minerva House was...

Minerva House was 'a finishing establishment for young ladies,' where some twenty girls of the ages from thirteen to...

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Charles Dickens: Mr. and Mrs....

Charles Dickens: Mr. and Mrs....

Mr. and Mrs. Veneering were bran-new people in a bran-new house in a bran-new quarter of London. Everything about the...

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Frederick Douglass: Those who profess...

Frederick Douglass: Those who profess...

Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation are men who want rain without thunder and...

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Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach: If you have...

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach: If you have...

If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty.

Source: Aph, 1905.
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Marquis de Sade: It is only...

Marquis de Sade: It is only...

It is only by enlarging the scope of one's tastes and one's fantasies, by sacrificing everything to pleasure, that...

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George Eliot: All meanings, we...

George Eliot: All meanings, we...

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

Source: Daniel Deronda,...

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Henry Miller: The worst sin...

Henry Miller: The worst sin...

The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment...

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Frank Norris: [The Muse of...

Frank Norris: [The Muse of...

[The Muse of our Fiction of the future] will lead you - if you are humble and honest with her - straight into a World...

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Douglas Adams: Nothing travels faster...

Douglas Adams: Nothing travels faster...

Nothing travels faster than light, with the possible exception of bad news, which follows its own...

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Emily Bronte: A good heart...

Emily Bronte: A good heart...

A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad. . . and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than...

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Fay Weldon: Young women especially...

Fay Weldon: Young women especially...

Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it's only when you have children that you...

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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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Martin Amis: For myself and...

Martin Amis: For myself and...

For myself and my loved ones, I want the heat, which comes at the speed of light. I don't want to have to hang about...

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Lisa Alther: Any mother could...

Lisa Alther: Any mother could...

Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease.

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Emily Bronte: A person who...

Emily Bronte: A person who...

A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half...

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Marguerite Yourcenar: I have never...

Marguerite Yourcenar: I have never...

I have never seasoned a truth with the sauce of a lie in order to digest it more easily.

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Francois Mauriac: Every novel worthy...

Francois Mauriac: Every novel worthy...

Every novel worthy of the name is like another planet, whether large or small, which has its own laws just as it has...

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James Thurber: When all things...

James Thurber: When all things...

When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing...

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