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Karl Popper: Our knowledge can...

Karl Popper: Our knowledge can...

Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein: Because our goals...

Ludwig Wittgenstein: Because our goals...

Because our goals are not lofty but illusory, our problems are not difficult, but...

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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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Francoise Sagan: Jazz music is...

Francoise Sagan: Jazz music is...

Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.

Source: Dominique, in A...

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Brian Moore: Research is usually...

Brian Moore: Research is usually...

Research is usually a policeman stopping a novel from progressing.

Source: In...

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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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Madeleine L'Engle: No matter how...

Madeleine L'Engle: No matter how...

No matter how true I believe I am writing to be, if the reader cannot also participate in that truth, then I have...

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Salman Rushdie: I make no...

Salman Rushdie: I make no...

I make no complaint. I am a writer. I do not accept my condition; I will strive to change it; but I inhabit it, I am...

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Francoise Sagan: There are moments...

Francoise Sagan: There are moments...

There are moments when you feel trapped, ill at ease. A year later the same feeling can turn out to be the theme of a...

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Francoise Sagan: Writing is a...

Francoise Sagan: Writing is a...

Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life is a...

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Louisa May Alcott: It takes people...

Louisa May Alcott: It takes people...

It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and...

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John Fowles: There are only...

John Fowles: There are only...

There are only two races on this planet -- the intelligent and the stupid.

Source:...

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John Fowles: There are many...

John Fowles: There are many...

There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative...

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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: Breed is stronger...

George Eliot: Breed is stronger...

Breed is stronger than pasture.

Source:
-- George Eliot, (Nov 22 1819-1880),...

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George Orwell: For a creative...

George Orwell: For a creative...

For a creative writer possession of the truth is less important than emotional sincerity.

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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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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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Graham Henry Greene: God. . ....

Graham Henry Greene: God. . ....

God. . . created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed -- that is the meaning of...

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Margaret Truman: He was prouder...

Margaret Truman: He was prouder...

He was prouder still to be a member of that even more restricted group, Uncle Sam Rayburn's Board of Education the...

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