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Graham Henry Greene: My two fingers...

Graham Henry Greene: My two fingers...

My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course....

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Clive Barker: It is sickness...

Clive Barker: It is sickness...

It is sickness of the profoundest kind to believe that there is one reality. There is sickness in any piece of work or...

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George Eliot: It seems to...

George Eliot: It seems to...

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we...

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George Eliot: Our deeds determine...

George Eliot: Our deeds determine...

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

Source: Adam Bede,...

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Booth Tarkington: The only good...

Booth Tarkington: The only good...

The only good in pretending is the fun we get out of fooling ourselves that we fool...

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Thomas Wolfe: Not even the...

Thomas Wolfe: Not even the...

Not even the most powerful organs of the press, including Time, Newsweek, and The New York Times, can discover a new...

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Jane Austen: Those who do...

Jane Austen: Those who do...

Those who do not complain are never pitied.

Source: Pride & Prejudice, 1813.
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James Allen: If you real...

James Allen: If you real...

If you real desire is to be good, there is no need to wait for the money before you do it; you can do it now, this...

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Man only likes...

Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Man only likes...

Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.

Source: Notes...

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Saul Bellow: With a novelist,...

Saul Bellow: With a novelist,...

With a novelist, like a surgeon, you have to get a feeling that you've fallen into good hands - someone from whom you...

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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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Sir Walter Besant: I am afraid...

Sir Walter Besant: I am afraid...

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best...

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Jean Paul: The child is...

Jean Paul: The child is...

The child is not to be educated for the present, but for the remote future, and often is opposition to the immediate...

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Alan Brien: Violence is the...

Alan Brien: Violence is the...

Violence is the repartee of the illiterate.

Source: In Punch, 7 Feb 1973.
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Mark Twain: If you tell...

Mark Twain: If you tell...

If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.

Source: In 1,911 Best...

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Patrick White: Well, good luck...

Patrick White: Well, good luck...

Well, good luck to you, kid! I'm going to write the Great Australian Novel.

Source:...

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Margaret Truman: He was prouder...

Margaret Truman: He was prouder...

He was prouder still to be a member of that even more restricted group, Uncle Sam Rayburn's Board of Education the...

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Malcolm Bradbury: You Liberals think...

Malcolm Bradbury: You Liberals think...

You Liberals think that goats are just sheep from broken homes.

Source: After...

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Madeleine L'Engle: In the evening...

Madeleine L'Engle: In the evening...

In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of us is going to come off very well, and were it not...

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Channing Pollock: Happiness is a...

Channing Pollock: Happiness is a...

Happiness is a way-station between too little and too much.

Source: Mr....

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