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Helen Hunt Jackson: Find me the...

Helen Hunt Jackson: Find me the...

Find me the men on earth who care
Enough for faith or creed today
To seek a barren wilderness
For simple...

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Dr Seuss: You make 'em,...

Dr Seuss: You make 'em,...

You make 'em, I amuse 'em.

Source: On children.
-- Dr Seuss, (Mar 2 1904-1991),...

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Arthur Conan Doyle: Violence does, in...

Arthur Conan Doyle: Violence does, in...

Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for...

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G K Chesterton: The fatal metaphor...

G K Chesterton: The fatal metaphor...

The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth,...

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Henry Fielding: I have found...

Henry Fielding: I have found...

I have found it; I have discovered the cause of all the misfortunes which befell him. A public school, Joseph, was...

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Emily Bronte: I've dreamt in...

Emily Bronte: I've dreamt in...

I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas: they've gone through and...

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Fay Weldon: The New Women!...

Fay Weldon: The New Women!...

The New Women! I could barely recognize them as being of the same sex as myself . . . .They are satiated by...

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Malcolm Bradbury: A conventional good...

Malcolm Bradbury: A conventional good...

A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an...

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Rudolph Fisher: Angels rush in...

Rudolph Fisher: Angels rush in...

Angels rush in when fools are almost dead.

Source: Blades of Steel, 1927.
--...

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Gloria Naylor: One should be...

Gloria Naylor: One should be...

One should be able to return to the first sentence of a novel and find the resonances of the entire...

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Edward Hoagland: There often seems...

Edward Hoagland: There often seems...

There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness...

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Louis Auchincloss: Keep doing good...

Louis Auchincloss: Keep doing good...

Keep doing good deeds long enough, and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of...

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Augusto Roa Bastos: Man is an...

Augusto Roa Bastos: Man is an...

Man is an idiot. He doesn't know how to do anything without copying, without imitating, without plagiarizing, without...

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Saul Bellow: A novel is...

Saul Bellow: A novel is...

A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and a multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call...

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Richard Bach: You are never...

Richard Bach: You are never...

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it,...

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Francoise Sagan: Life has confirmed...

Francoise Sagan: Life has confirmed...

Life has confirmed for me the thoughts and impressions I had when I was 18, as if it was all...

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I write in...

I write in...

I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving...

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Fame is an...

Fame is an...

Fame is an embalmer trembling with stage fright.

Source: In Correct Quotes for DOS,...

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I never lecture,...

I never lecture,...

I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to...

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The truly civilized...

The truly civilized...

The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant . . . His culture is based on I am not too...

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