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Brian Moore: As always on...

Brian Moore: As always on...

As always on this boulevard, the faces were young, coming annually in an endless migration from every country, every...

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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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Gloria Naylor: It's as if...

Gloria Naylor: It's as if...

It's as if I've arrived in a place where it's all spirit and no body -- an overwhelming sense of calm . . . I actually...

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Jean Paul: The parent is...

Jean Paul: The parent is...

The parent is low, who having children, truly feels bored.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Christopher Morley: Man makes a...

Christopher Morley: Man makes a...

Man makes a great fuss about this planet which is only a ballbearing in the hub of the...

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Christopher Morley: High heels were...

Christopher Morley: High heels were...

High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.

Source: In...

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Mark Twain: Part of the...

Mark Twain: Part of the...

Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out...

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Marguerite Yourcenar: Leaving behind books...

Marguerite Yourcenar: Leaving behind books...

Leaving behind books is even more beautiful -- there are far too many children.

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Charles Reade: Not a day...

Charles Reade: Not a day...

Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble...

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Charles Morgan: The art of...

Charles Morgan: The art of...

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing...

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Don Delillo: To be a...

Don Delillo: To be a...

To be a tourist is to escape accountability. Errors and failings don't cling to you the way they do back home. ...

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Umberto Eco: I would define...

Umberto Eco: I would define...

I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings,...

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Jane Rule: I believe only...

Jane Rule: I believe only...

I believe only in art and failure.

Source: This is Not for You, 1970.
-- Jane...

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Hugh Walpole: It isn't life...

Hugh Walpole: It isn't life...

It isn't life that matters, it's the courage you bring to it.

Source: In My...

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Epicurus: A free life...

Epicurus: A free life...

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or...

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Sir Walter Scott: There is a...

Sir Walter Scott: There is a...

There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt...

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Joseph Conrad: An artist is...

Joseph Conrad: An artist is...

An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a...

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C S Lewis: Education without values,...

C S Lewis: Education without values,...

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever...

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Hosea Ballou: Education commences at...

Hosea Ballou: Education commences at...

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearing of little children tends towards...

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Harry Emerson Fosdick: He who knows...

Harry Emerson Fosdick: He who knows...

He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it...

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