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Fawn M Brodie: A man's memory...

Fawn M Brodie: A man's memory...

A man's memory is bound to be a distortion of his past in accordance with his present interests, and the most faithful...

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Elias Canetti: The profoundest thoughts...

Elias Canetti: The profoundest thoughts...

The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle about them. A lot disappears in order for...

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Artemus Ward: I'm not a...

Artemus Ward: I'm not a...

I'm not a politician and my other habits are good.

Source: Artemus Ward His Book,...

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George Ade: It isn't how...

George Ade: It isn't how...

It isn't how long you stick around but what you put over while you are here.

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Italo Calvino: Myth is the...

Italo Calvino: Myth is the...

Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there are as yet...

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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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Peter Abrahams: The words dripped...

Peter Abrahams: The words dripped...

The words dripped on my consciousness, sank into my being, and carried me away to the magic long ago of once upon a...

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Vicki Baum: A woman who...

Vicki Baum: A woman who...

A woman who is loved always has success.

Source: Grand Hotel, 1929.
-- Vicki...

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Joyce Cary: For good and...

Joyce Cary: For good and...

For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in...

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Daisy Ashford: I am parshial...

Daisy Ashford: I am parshial...

I am parshial [sic] to ladies if they are nice. I suppose it is my nature. I am not quite a gentleman but you would...

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Gloria Naylor: Not only is...

Gloria Naylor: Not only is...

Not only is your story worth telling, but it can be told in words so painstakingly eloquent that it becomes a...

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Jean Paul: The timid are...

Jean Paul: The timid are...

The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after...

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James Thurber: A drawing is...

James Thurber: A drawing is...

A drawing is always dragged down to the level of its caption.

Source: New Yorker ...

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Louisa May Alcott: Father asked us...

Louisa May Alcott: Father asked us...

Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never...

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George Eliot: I like not...

George Eliot: I like not...

I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the...

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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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Charles Morgan: Happiness, like a...

Charles Morgan: Happiness, like a...

Happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Emily Bronte: Vain are the...

Emily Bronte: Vain are the...

Vain are the thousand creeds
That move men's hearts, unutterably vain;
Worthless as withered weeds,
Or idlest...

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Malcolm Bradbury: Reading someone else's...

Malcolm Bradbury: Reading someone else's...

Reading someone else's newspaper is like sleeping with someone else's wife. Nothing seems to be precisely in the right...

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John LeCarre: A committee is...

John LeCarre: A committee is...

A committee is an animal with four back legs.

Source: Smiley, in Tinker, Tailor,...

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