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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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Sir Walter Besant: You cannot believe...

Sir Walter Besant: You cannot believe...

You cannot believe in honor until you have achieved it. Better keep yourself clean and bright you are the window...

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Richard Bach: That's what learning...

Richard Bach: That's what learning...

That's what learning is, after all: not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed because of it,...

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Francoise Sagan: To jealousy, nothing...

Francoise Sagan: To jealousy, nothing...

To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.

Source: La Chamade,...

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Clive Barker: It is sickness...

Clive Barker: It is sickness...

It is sickness of the profoundest kind to believe that there is one reality. There is sickness in any piece of work or...

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Mark Twain: When a person...

Mark Twain: When a person...

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other...

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Aldous Huxley: It is far...

Aldous Huxley: It is far...

It is far easier to write ten passable effective sonnets, good enough to take in the not too inquiring critic, than...

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Judith Krantz: Billy thought privately...

Judith Krantz: Billy thought privately...

Billy thought privately that the rich are different only because people treat them as if they were. Sometimes she...

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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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Dr Seuss: You can get...

Dr Seuss: You can get...

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a...

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Francois Rabelais: Not everyone is...

Francois Rabelais: Not everyone is...

Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.

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Katherine Mansfield: Tidied all my...

Katherine Mansfield: Tidied all my...

Tidied all my papers. Tore up and ruthlessly destroyed much. This is always a great...

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Anais Nin: We don't see...

Anais Nin: We don't see...

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Iris Murdoch: Writing is like...

Iris Murdoch: Writing is like...

Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's...

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Ishmael Reed: Writing has made...

Ishmael Reed: Writing has made...

Writing has made me a better man. It has put me in contact with those fleeting moments which prove the...

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Alvin Toffler: The illiterate of...

Alvin Toffler: The illiterate of...

The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to...

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Alvin Toffler: You can use...

Alvin Toffler: You can use...

You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and...

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Natalie Clifford Barney: Fatalism is the...

Natalie Clifford Barney: Fatalism is the...

Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the evitable.

Source: In The Amazon of...

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Ian Fleming: A woman should...

Ian Fleming: A woman should...

A woman should be an illusion.

Source: Life of Ian Fleming, by John Pearson.
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Marguerite Duras: Before they're plumbers...

Marguerite Duras: Before they're plumbers...

Before they're plumbers or writers or taxi drivers or unemployed or journalists, men are men. Whether heterosexual or...

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