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John Barth: Nothing is intrinsically...

John Barth: Nothing is intrinsically...

Nothing is intrinsically valuable; the value of everything is attributed to it, assigned to it from outside the thing...

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Emily Bronte: Proud people breed...

Emily Bronte: Proud people breed...

Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves. [Nelly, in Wuthering Heights]

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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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Sir Walter Besant: I am afraid...

Sir Walter Besant: I am afraid...

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best...

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Romain Rolland: Every man who...

Romain Rolland: Every man who...

Every man who is truly a man must learn to be alone in the midst of all others, and if need be against all...

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Thomas Love Peacock: Respectable means rich,...

Thomas Love Peacock: Respectable means rich,...

Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called...

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Marguerite Duras: Nowhere is one...

Marguerite Duras: Nowhere is one...

Nowhere is one more alone than in Paris. . . and yet surrounded by crowds. Nowhere is one more likely to incur greater...

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Marguerite Duras: You have to...

Marguerite Duras: You have to...

You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be very fond of them to love them. Otherwise they're...

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Marguerite Duras: The thing that's...

Marguerite Duras: The thing that's...

The thing that's between us is fascination, and the fascination resides in our being alike. Whether you're a man or a...

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Robert Nathan: Beauty is ever...

Robert Nathan: Beauty is ever...

Beauty is ever to the lonely mind
A shadow fleeting; she is never plain.
She is a visitor who leaves...

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Robert Penn Warren: Poets, we know,...

Robert Penn Warren: Poets, we know,...

Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about...

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Leo Rosten: Humor is, I...

Leo Rosten: Humor is, I...

Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand...

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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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Artemus Ward: Let us all...

Artemus Ward: Let us all...

Let us all be happy, and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it...

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Ernest Bramah: He who thinks...

Ernest Bramah: He who thinks...

He who thinks he is raising a mound may only in reality be digging a pit.

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John Galsworthy: The beginnings and...

John Galsworthy: The beginnings and...

The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.

Source: In The...

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Richard Hughes: Nature is as...

Richard Hughes: Nature is as...

Nature is as wasteful of promising young men as she is of fish spawn.

Source: The...

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Colette: Sit down and...

Colette: Sit down and...

Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can...

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Ellen Glasgow: I suppose I...

Ellen Glasgow: I suppose I...

I suppose I am a born novelist, for the things that I imagine are more vital and vivid to me than the things I...

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