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Jessamyn West: A broken bone...

Jessamyn West: A broken bone...

A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.

Source: The...

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Ernest J Gaines: I have learned...

Ernest J Gaines: I have learned...

I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have by...

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Ernest J Gaines: We wait till...

Ernest J Gaines: We wait till...

We wait till now? Now, when we're old men, we get to be brave?

Source: A Gathering...

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Carolyn Wells: A blunder at...

Carolyn Wells: A blunder at...

A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness at the wrong time.

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Louis L'Amour: It is often...

Louis L'Amour: It is often...

It is often said that one has but one life to live, but that is nonsense. For one who reads, there is no limit to the...

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Lydia M Child: There was a...

Lydia M Child: There was a...

There was a time when all these things would have passed me by, like the flitting figures of a theatre, sufficient for...

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Beatrix Potter: Don't go into...

Beatrix Potter: Don't go into...

Don't go into Mr. McGregor's garden: your Father had an accident there; he was put in a pie by Mrs....

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Fawn M Brodie: Housework is a...

Fawn M Brodie: Housework is a...

Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like...

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Robertson Davies: Imagination is a...

Robertson Davies: Imagination is a...

Imagination is a good horse to carry you over the ground -- not a flying carpet to set you free from...

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Elias Canetti: The great writers...

Elias Canetti: The great writers...

The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well.

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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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Aesop: Obscurity brings safety....

Aesop: Obscurity brings safety....

Obscurity brings safety.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations Library,...

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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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Dorothy L Sayers: There certainly does...

Dorothy L Sayers: There certainly does...

There certainly does seem a possibility that the detective story will come to an end, simply because the public will...

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Robertson Davies: Nothing is so...

Robertson Davies: Nothing is so...

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

Source: Saraceni, in What's Bred in...

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Annie Dillard: No; we have...

Annie Dillard: No; we have...

No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is...

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Annie Dillard: The sense impressions...

Annie Dillard: The sense impressions...

The sense impressions of one-celled animals are not edited for the brain. This is philosophically interesting in a...

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Harriet Beecher Stowe: [I]f it were...

Harriet Beecher Stowe: [I]f it were...

[I]f it were admitted that the great object is to read and enjoy a language, and the stress of the teaching were...

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Max Eastman: Laughter is, after...

Max Eastman: Laughter is, after...

Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together.

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Alvin Toffler: You simply *must*...

Alvin Toffler: You simply *must*...

You simply *must* stop taking advice from other people.

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