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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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James Michener: If you reject...

James Michener: If you reject...

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home. You...

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Frank Norris: [The Muse of...

Frank Norris: [The Muse of...

[The Muse of our Fiction of the future] will lead you - if you are humble and honest with her - straight into a World...

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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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Jane Austen: I think I...

Jane Austen: I think I...

I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to...

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Douglas Adams: There is a...

Douglas Adams: There is a...

There is a theory that states: If anyone finds out what the universe is for it will disappear and be replaced by...

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James Allen: Good thoughts bear...

James Allen: Good thoughts bear...

Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit -- and man is his own gardener.

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James Allen: Whether you be...

James Allen: Whether you be...

Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of...

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Dinah Mulock Craik: Keep what is...

Dinah Mulock Craik: Keep what is...

Keep what is worth keeping --
And with the breath of kindness
Blow the rest away.


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Anna Sewell: I am never...

Anna Sewell: I am never...

I am never afraid of what I know.

Source: Black Beauty, 1877.
-- Anna Sewell,...

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Fay Weldon: Young women especially...

Fay Weldon: Young women especially...

Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it's only when you have children that you...

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John Barth: The Bible is...

John Barth: The Bible is...

The Bible is not man's word about God, but God's word about man.

Source: In The...

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John Steinbeck: The writer must...

John Steinbeck: The writer must...

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this...

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Nancy Mitford: To fall in...

Nancy Mitford: To fall in...

To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.

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Harry Crews: There is something...

Harry Crews: There is something...

There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed...

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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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Marquis de Sade: Nature, who for...

Marquis de Sade: Nature, who for...

Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and...

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Graham Henry Greene: I have often...

Graham Henry Greene: I have often...

I have often noticed that a bribe . . . has that effect -- it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives...

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Margaret Truman: Mother . ....

Margaret Truman: Mother . ....

Mother . . . considered a press conference on a par with a visit to a cage of cobras.

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Malcolm Bradbury: If God had...

Malcolm Bradbury: If God had...

If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments -- we'd have the Ten...

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