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Charles Dickens: Home is a...

Charles Dickens: Home is a...

Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the...

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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.

Source:...

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Edmund Clerihew Bentley: Sir Humphry Davy<br>Abominated...

Edmund Clerihew Bentley: Sir Humphry Davy
Abominated...

Sir Humphry Davy
Abominated gravy.
He lived in the odium
Of having discovered...

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Edna O'Brien: In a way...

Edna O'Brien: In a way...

In a way winter is the real spring, the time when the inner things happen, the resurge of...

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Marguerite Duras: The woman is...

Marguerite Duras: The woman is...

The woman is the home. That's where she used to be, and that's where she still is. You might ask me, What if a man...

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Anne Bronte: But he that...

Anne Bronte: But he that...

But he that dares not grasp the thorn
Should never crave the rose.


Source: The...

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George Meredith: Ah, what a...

George Meredith: Ah, what a...

Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul
When hot for certainties in this our life!


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Mark Twain: In Paris they...

Mark Twain: In Paris they...

In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand...

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Mark Twain: Lump the whole...

Mark Twain: Lump the whole...

Lump the whole thing! Say that the Creator made Italy from designs by Michael Angelo!

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Katherine Mansfield: Tidied all my...

Katherine Mansfield: Tidied all my...

Tidied all my papers. Tore up and ruthlessly destroyed much. This is always a great...

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Flannery O'Connor: Everywhere I go...

Flannery O'Connor: Everywhere I go...

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of...

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Jessamyn West: Memory is a...

Jessamyn West: Memory is a...

Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to...

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Ishmael Reed: I try to...

Ishmael Reed: I try to...

I try to do what has never been done before.

Source: In African-American Writers,...

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Osbert Sitwell: My education [takes...

Osbert Sitwell: My education [takes...

My education [takes place] during the holidays from Eton.

Source: Entry in Who's...

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Robert Fulghum: Clean up your...

Robert Fulghum: Clean up your...

Clean up your own mess.

Source: All I Need to Know...
-- Robert Fulghum, (Jun 4...

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Lydia M Child: There was a...

Lydia M Child: There was a...

There was a time when all these things would have passed me by, like the flitting figures of a theatre, sufficient for...

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Lydia M Child: The eye of...

Lydia M Child: The eye of...

The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.

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Ian Fleming: I shall not...

Ian Fleming: I shall not...

I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Source:...

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Kenneth Grahame: The strongest human...

Kenneth Grahame: The strongest human...

The strongest human instinct is to impart information, the second strongest is to resist...

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Robertson Davies: The eye sees...

Robertson Davies: The eye sees...

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

Source: In Webster's...

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