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George Moses Horton: Because the brood-sows...

George Moses Horton: Because the brood-sows...

Because the brood-sows left side pigs were black
Whose sable tincture was by nature struck.
Were you by justice...

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Vladimir Mayakovsky: No gray hairs...

Vladimir Mayakovsky: No gray hairs...

No gray hairs streak my soul,
no grandfatherly fondness there!
I shake the world with the might of my...

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Delmore Schwartz: I should like...

Delmore Schwartz: I should like...

I should like you to consider this letter as a resignation; I want to resign as one of your most studious and faithful...

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Thornton Wilder: I do borrow...

Thornton Wilder: I do borrow...

I do borrow from other writers, shamelessly! I can only say in my defense, like the woman brought before the judge on...

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J August Strindberg: I dream, therefore...

J August Strindberg: I dream, therefore...

I dream, therefore I exist.

Source: A Madman's Defense, pt. 1, ch. 7 (1968).
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Aphra Behn: Love ceases to...

Aphra Behn: Love ceases to...

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Source: The Lover's...

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Neil Simon: You must realize...

Neil Simon: You must realize...

You must realize that honorary degrees are given generally to people whose SAT scores were too low to get them into...

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Neil Simon: People with honorary...

Neil Simon: People with honorary...

People with honorary awards are looked upon with disfavor. Would you let an honorary mechanic fix your brand-new...

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John Keats: The only means...

John Keats: The only means...

The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing --to let the mind be a...

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Ovid: In an easy...

Ovid: In an easy...

In an easy cause anyone can be eloquent; the slightest strength is enough to break what is already...

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Robert Bly: I know a...

Robert Bly: I know a...

I know a lot of men who are healthier at age fifty than they have ever been before, because a lot of their fear is...

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Francesco Petrarch: The aged love...

Francesco Petrarch: The aged love...

The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.

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Dante: The customs and...

Dante: The customs and...

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others...

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Joaquin Miller: The soul that...

Joaquin Miller: The soul that...

The soul that feeds on books alone --
I count that soul exceeding small
That lives alone by book and creed,...

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Edmund Spenser: It is the...

Edmund Spenser: It is the...

It is the mind that maketh good or ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.

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Martin Tupper: To be accurate,...

Martin Tupper: To be accurate,...

To be accurate, write; to remember, write; to know thine own mind, write.

Source:...

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Countee Cullen: So in the...

Countee Cullen: So in the...

So in the dark we hide the heart that bleeds,
And wait, and tend our agonizing seeds.


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Antonin Artaud: So long as...

Antonin Artaud: So long as...

So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to...

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Antonin Artaud: It is not...

Antonin Artaud: It is not...

It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time...

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Antonin Artaud: The race of...

Antonin Artaud: The race of...

The race of prophets is extinct. Europe is becoming set in its ways, slowly embalming itself beneath the wrappings of...

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