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Joyce Carol Oates: Our house is...

Joyce Carol Oates: Our house is...

Our house is made of glass . . . and our lives are made of glass; and there is nothing we can do to protect...

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Helen Hunt Jackson: Find me the...

Helen Hunt Jackson: Find me the...

Find me the men on earth who care
Enough for faith or creed today
To seek a barren wilderness
For simple...

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Hermann Hesse: There's no reality...

Hermann Hesse: There's no reality...

There's no reality except the one contained within us. That's why so many people live an unreal life. They take images...

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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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Laurence Sterne: Learning is the...

Laurence Sterne: Learning is the...

Learning is the dictionary, but sense the grammar of science.

Source: In Wisdom of...

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Douglas Adams: Human beings, who...

Douglas Adams: Human beings, who...

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable...

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Elie Wiesel: Most people think...

Elie Wiesel: Most people think...

Most people think that shadows follow, precede, or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround...

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Emily Bronte: I've dreamt in...

Emily Bronte: I've dreamt in...

I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas: they've gone through and...

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Malcolm Bradbury: A conventional good...

Malcolm Bradbury: A conventional good...

A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an...

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Katherine Mansfield: Looking back, I...

Katherine Mansfield: Looking back, I...

Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything,...

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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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Rachel Field: I used to...

Rachel Field: I used to...

I used to think I had ambition . . . but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily...

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Tom Sharpe: I have yet...

Tom Sharpe: I have yet...

I have yet to met a liberal who can withstand the attrition of prolonged discussion of the...

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Edmund Clerihew Bentley: The Art of...

Edmund Clerihew Bentley: The Art of...

The Art of Biography
Is different from Geography.
Geography is about Maps,
But Biography is about...

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Edmund Clerihew Bentley: What I like...

Edmund Clerihew Bentley: What I like...

What I like about Clive
Is that he is no longer alive.
There is a great deal to be said
For being...

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P D James: A man who...

P D James: A man who...

A man who lives with nature is used to violence and is companionable with death. There is more violence in an English...

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Ashley Montagu: It is work,...

Ashley Montagu: It is work,...

It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has...

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Loren Eiseley: Like the herd...

Loren Eiseley: Like the herd...

Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us.

Source:...

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William Lyon Phelps: A well-ordered life...

William Lyon Phelps: A well-ordered life...

A well-ordered life is like climbing a tower; the view halfway up is better than the view from the base, and it...

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A J Balfour: I do not...

A J Balfour: I do not...

I do not know how it comes about, but if you sit opposite a man every day and you are engaged in fighting him, you...

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