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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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Douglas Coupland: On TV people...

Douglas Coupland: On TV people...

On TV people look at your hair and then they look at your skin, and then they look at your clothes, and by the time...

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Stephen Potter: A good general...

Stephen Potter: A good general...

A good general rule is to state that the bouquet is better than the taste, and vice versa.

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William Golding: The journey of...

William Golding: The journey of...

The journey of life is like a man riding a bicycle. We know he got on the bicycle and started to move. We know that at...

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Charles Dickens: He'd make a...

Charles Dickens: He'd make a...

He'd make a lovely corpse.

Source: Martin Chuzzlewit, Ch. 25
-- Charles Dickens,...

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Charles Dickens: Mr. and Mrs....

Charles Dickens: Mr. and Mrs....

Mr. and Mrs. Veneering were bran-new people in a bran-new house in a bran-new quarter of London. Everything about the...

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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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Mary Stewart: The best way...

Mary Stewart: The best way...

The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you...

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Arnold Bennett: You can only...

Arnold Bennett: You can only...

You can only acquire really useful general ideas by first acquiring particular ideas . . . You cannot make bricks...

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George Eliot: The poverty of...

George Eliot: The poverty of...

The poverty of our imagination is no measure of say the world's resources. Our posterity will no doubt get fuel in...

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Thomas Wolfe: If a man...

Thomas Wolfe: If a man...

If a man has a talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has a talent and uses only half of it, he has partly...

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Thomas Wolfe: This is the...

Thomas Wolfe: This is the...

This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's...

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Thomas Wolfe: The reason a...

Thomas Wolfe: The reason a...

The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember...

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Jane Austen: If it was...

Jane Austen: If it was...

'If it was not for the entail I should not mind it.' `What should not you mind?' `I should not mind anything at all.'...

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Douglas Adams: Flying is learning...

Douglas Adams: Flying is learning...

Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

Source: In The...

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Antoine de Saint-Exupery: Grown-ups never understand...

Antoine de Saint-Exupery: Grown-ups never understand...

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever...

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Not everything has...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Not everything has...

Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.

Source:...

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Thomas Wolfe: Culture is the...

Thomas Wolfe: Culture is the...

Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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George Orwell: Doublethink means the...

George Orwell: Doublethink means the...

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of...

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G K Chesterton: The perplexity of...

G K Chesterton: The perplexity of...

The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in...

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