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Judith Guest: People who keep...

Judith Guest: People who keep...

People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.

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Tama Janowitz: Crimes, sins, nightmares,...

Tama Janowitz: Crimes, sins, nightmares,...

Crimes, sins, nightmares, hunks of hair: it was surprising how many of them has something to dispose of. The more I...

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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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Francoise Sagan: Jazz music is...

Francoise Sagan: Jazz music is...

Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.

Source: Dominique, in A...

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Barbara Kingsolver: It's surprising how...

Barbara Kingsolver: It's surprising how...

It's surprising how much of memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.

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Nella Larsen: She wished to...

Nella Larsen: She wished to...

She wished to find out about this hazardous business of passing, this breaking away from all that was familiar and...

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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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Norman Douglas: They who are...

Norman Douglas: They who are...

They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves.

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn: It is the...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: It is the...

It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice...

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Justice is conscience,...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Justice is conscience,...

Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly...

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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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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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Jane Austen: One cannot be...

Jane Austen: One cannot be...

One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.

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Aldous Huxley: An unexciting truth...

Aldous Huxley: An unexciting truth...

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

Source: The Perennial...

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Jane Rule: Morality, like language,...

Jane Rule: Morality, like language,...

Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morality is learned,...

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George Orwell: For a creative...

George Orwell: For a creative...

For a creative writer possession of the truth is less important than emotional sincerity.

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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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James Fenimore Cooper: The common faults...

James Fenimore Cooper: The common faults...

The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of...

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Anthony Burgess: The trouble began...

Anthony Burgess: The trouble began...

The trouble began with Forster. After him it was considered ungentlemanly to write more than five or six...

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Marcus Cato: Speech is the...

Marcus Cato: Speech is the...

Speech is the gift of all, but thought of few.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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