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Dorothy Gilman: But she knew...

Dorothy Gilman: But she knew...

But she knew that she had encountered one of the more devastating kinds of loneliness in existence: that of being in...

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William Golding: He was as...

William Golding: He was as...

He was as fitted to survival in this modern world as a tapeworm in an intestine.

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Thomas Wolfe: Publishing is a...

Thomas Wolfe: Publishing is a...

Publishing is a very mysterious business. It is hard to predict what kind of sale or reception a book will have, and...

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Vicki Baum: A woman who...

Vicki Baum: A woman who...

A woman who is loved always has success.

Source: Grand Hotel, 1929.
-- Vicki...

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Margaret Mitchell: I'm tired of...

Margaret Mitchell: I'm tired of...

I'm tired of saying, How wonderful you are! to fool men who haven't got one-half the sense I've got, and I'm tired of...

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Tillie Olsen: Time granted does...

Tillie Olsen: Time granted does...

Time granted does not necessarily coincide with time that can be most fully used.

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George Sand: Simplicity is the...

George Sand: Simplicity is the...

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort...

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Alvin Toffler: The Law of...

Alvin Toffler: The Law of...

The Law of Raspberry Jam: The wider any culture is spread, the thinner it gets.

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Carolyn Wells: We should live...

Carolyn Wells: We should live...

We should live and learn; but by the time we've learned, it's too late to live.

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Robert Stone: I start early...

Robert Stone: I start early...

I start early in the morning. I'm usually out in the woods with the dog as soon as it gets light; then I drink a whole...

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Louis L'Amour: I'm like a...

Louis L'Amour: I'm like a...

I'm like a big old hen. I can't cluck too long about the egg I've just laid because I've got 5 more inside me pushing...

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Lydia M Child: Every human being...

Lydia M Child: Every human being...

Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not...

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Lydia M Child: That man's best...

Lydia M Child: That man's best...

That man's best works should be such bungling imitations of Nature's infinite perfection, matters not much; but that...

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Kenneth Grahame: The clever men...

Kenneth Grahame: The clever men...

The clever men at Oxford
Know all that there is to be knowed.
But they none of them know one half as much
As...

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Kenneth Grahame: It is the...

Kenneth Grahame: It is the...

It is the restrictions placed on vice by our social code which makes its pursuit so peculiarly...

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R S Surtees: More people are...

R S Surtees: More people are...

More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice.

Source: In...

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R S Surtees: Three things I...

R S Surtees: Three things I...

Three things I never lends - my 'oss, my wife, and my name.

Source: Hillingdon...

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Dorothy L Sayers: None of us...

Dorothy L Sayers: None of us...

None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach people that -- they have...

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Dorothy L Sayers: Paradoxical as it...

Dorothy L Sayers: Paradoxical as it...

Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in...

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Phillips Brooks: O little town...

Phillips Brooks: O little town...

O little town of Bethlehem,
How still we see thee lie;
Above thy deep and dreamless sleep
The silent stars go...

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