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Harriet Beecher Stowe: One would like...

Harriet Beecher Stowe: One would like...

One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very...

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Jessamyn West: Teaching is the...

Jessamyn West: Teaching is the...

Teaching is the royal road to learning.

Source: In Words of Women Quotations for...

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Jerome K Jerome: It is so...

Jerome K Jerome: It is so...

It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being...

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Alvin Toffler: Parenthood remains the...

Alvin Toffler: Parenthood remains the...

Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

Source: Future...

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Francois LaRochefoucauld: One is never...

Francois LaRochefoucauld: One is never...

One is never as unhappy as one thinks, nor as happy as one had hoped for.

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Emile Zola: Perfection is such...

Emile Zola: Perfection is such...

Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.

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Erica Jong: No one ever...

Erica Jong: No one ever...

No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the...

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Barbara Tuchman: To be a...

Barbara Tuchman: To be a...

To be a bestseller is not necessarily a measure of quality, but it is a measure of...

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J Saunders Redding: The pathos of...

J Saunders Redding: The pathos of...

The pathos of man is that he hungers for personal fulfillment and for a sense of community with...

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J Saunders Redding: The writer's ultimate...

J Saunders Redding: The writer's ultimate...

The writer's ultimate purpose is to use his gifts to develop man's awareness of himself so that he, man, can become a...

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Max Frisch: When you say...

Max Frisch: When you say...

When you say a friend has a sense of humor do you mean that he makes you laugh, or that he can make you...

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Anne Rice: To really ask...

Anne Rice: To really ask...

To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the...

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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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William Styron: The good writing...

William Styron: The good writing...

The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's, neurosis.

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Lois McMaster Bujold: Good soldiers never...

Lois McMaster Bujold: Good soldiers never...

Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the...

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Rudolph Fisher: He's from 'way...

Rudolph Fisher: He's from 'way...

He's from 'way down behind the sun an' ripe f' the pluckin'.

Source: City of...

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Booth Tarkington: When I get...

Booth Tarkington: When I get...

When I get to be a man! Being human, though boys, they considered their present estate too commonplace to be dwelt...

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Gloria Naylor: I don't believe...

Gloria Naylor: I don't believe...

I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed...

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James Michener: It heartens me...

James Michener: It heartens me...

It heartens me to think of Verdi who composed thundering operas in his eighties; Michelangelo who did fine work in his...

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Nelson Algren: The avocation of...

Nelson Algren: The avocation of...

The avocation of assessing the failures of better men can be turned into a comfortable livelihood, providing you back...

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