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Gerald Jampolsky: A truly creative...

Gerald Jampolsky: A truly creative...

A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.

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William Lyon Phelps: Nature makes boys...

William Lyon Phelps: Nature makes boys...

Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some...

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John Erskine: America is the...

John Erskine: America is the...

America is the only country left where we teach languages so that no pupil can speak them.

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Miguel de Unamuno: Suffering is the...

Miguel de Unamuno: Suffering is the...

Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us...

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Charles Sumner: From the beginning...

Charles Sumner: From the beginning...

From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human...

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June Singer: Despite the continuing...

June Singer: Despite the continuing...

Despite the continuing expansion or even explosion of information, there will forever be limits beyond which the...

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Ashley Montagu: By virtue of...

Ashley Montagu: By virtue of...

By virtue of being born to humanity, every human being has a right to the development and fulfillment of his...

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Ashley Montagu: Human beings are...

Ashley Montagu: Human beings are...

Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of...

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Max Frisch: He cannot bear...

Max Frisch: He cannot bear...

He cannot bear old men's jokes. That is not new. But now he begins to think of them...

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Marguerite Duras: Acting doesn't bring...

Marguerite Duras: Acting doesn't bring...

Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it.

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Marguerite Duras: Paradoxically, the freedom...

Marguerite Duras: Paradoxically, the freedom...

Paradoxically, the freedom of Paris is associated with a persistent belief that nothing ever changes. Paris, they say,...

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Boris Pasternak: No bad man...

Boris Pasternak: No bad man...

No bad man can be a good poet.

Source: Quoted in Ilya Ehrenburg, Truce
-- Boris...

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Joyce Carol Oates: Our enemy is...

Joyce Carol Oates: Our enemy is...

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Source:...

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Jean Paul Richter: Men, like bullets,...

Jean Paul Richter: Men, like bullets,...

Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Mary Webb: When you dwell...

Mary Webb: When you dwell...

When you dwell in a house you mislike, you will look out of a window a deal more than those that are content with...

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George MacDonald: To have what...

George MacDonald: To have what...

To have what we want is riches; but to do without is power.

Source: In The...

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Mary Stewart: Have you ever...

Mary Stewart: Have you ever...

Have you ever thought, when something dreadful happens, a moment ago things were not like this, let it be then, not...

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Mary Renault: The perpetual stream...

Mary Renault: The perpetual stream...

The perpetual stream of human nature is formed into ever-changing shallows, eddies, falls and pools by the land over...

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Mary Renault: In hatred as...

Mary Renault: In hatred as...

In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very...

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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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