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John Bunyan: As I walked...

John Bunyan: As I walked...

As I walked through the wilderness of this world.

Source: The Pilgrim's Progress,...

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Billy Graham: Hot heads and...

Billy Graham: Hot heads and...

Hot heads and cold hearts never solved anything.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Mark Twain: Get you facts...

Mark Twain: Get you facts...

Get you facts first, and then you can distort 'em as much as you please.

Source: In...

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Judith Guest: Geez, if I...

Judith Guest: Geez, if I...

Geez, if I could get through to you, kiddo, that depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and...

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Louis Auchincloss: A neurotic can...

Louis Auchincloss: A neurotic can...

A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when...

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Charles Reade: Not a day...

Charles Reade: Not a day...

Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble...

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Naomi Mitchison: It was all...

Naomi Mitchison: It was all...

It was all coming out from somewhere, and I just had the job of writing it down. I was, however, determined that the...

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Francoise Sagan: The one thing...

Francoise Sagan: The one thing...

The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to...

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Brian Moore: If misery loves...

Brian Moore: If misery loves...

If misery loves company, then triumph demands an audience.

Source: An Answer from...

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Jane Austen: All the privilege...

Jane Austen: All the privilege...

All the privilege I claim for my own sex . . . is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is...

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Jane Rule: Morality, like language,...

Jane Rule: Morality, like language,...

Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morality is learned,...

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William H Gass: [For the speedy...

William H Gass: [For the speedy...

[For the speedy reader] paragraphs become a country the eye flies over looking for landmarks, reference points,...

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Francois Rabelais: I have known...

Francois Rabelais: I have known...

I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.

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Robertson Davies: The dog is...

Robertson Davies: The dog is...

The dog is a yes-animal. Very popular with people who can't afford a yes man.

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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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Annie Dillard: The body of...

Annie Dillard: The body of...

The body of literature, with its limits and edges, exists outside some people and inside others. Only after the writer...

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Gertrude Stein: A writer must...

Gertrude Stein: A writer must...

A writer must always try to have a philosophy and he should also have a psychology and a philology and many other...

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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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Harriet Beecher Stowe: Mothers are the...

Harriet Beecher Stowe: Mothers are the...

Mothers are the most instinctive philosophers.

Source: In Readers' Digest.
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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.

Source:...

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