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Philip Massinger: Now speak,<br>Or be...

Philip Massinger: Now speak,
Or be...

Now speak,
Or be for ever silent.


Source: The Duke of Milan, IV. iii.
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Jean Racine: Small crimes always...

Jean Racine: Small crimes always...

Small crimes always precedes great ones.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Alan Bennett: Were we closer...

Alan Bennett: Were we closer...

Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?

Source:...

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Samuel Foote: The great Panjandrum...

Samuel Foote: The great Panjandrum...

The great Panjandrum himself.

Source: Nonsense, quoted by Maria Edgeworth in Harry...

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Vita Sackville-West: There are no...

Vita Sackville-West: There are no...

There are no signposts in the sea.

Source: No Signposts in the Sea, 1961.
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Sean O'Casey: Wealth often takes...

Sean O'Casey: Wealth often takes...

Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a...

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Shelagh Delaney: Women never have...

Shelagh Delaney: Women never have...

Women never have young minds. They were born three thousand years old.

Source: A...

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Robert E Sherwood: He must be...

Robert E Sherwood: He must be...

He must be a chaser of wild geese, as well as of wild ducks. He must be prepared to make a public spectacle of...

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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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Francoise Sagan: Of course the...

Francoise Sagan: Of course the...

Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the...

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Jane Rule: I had never...

Jane Rule: I had never...

I had never been as resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes, perhaps because although I couldn't...

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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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Grace Metalious: I looked into...

Grace Metalious: I looked into...

I looked into that empty bottle and I saw myself.

Source: On her bout with...

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Barbara Cartland: The right diet...

Barbara Cartland: The right diet...

The right diet directs sexual energy into the parts that matter.

Source: In...

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Herman Wouk: We are in...

Herman Wouk: We are in...

We are in the black theater of nonexistence. In an eye blink the curtain is up, the stage ablaze, for the vast drama...

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Marion Zimmer Bradley: Speak not against...

Marion Zimmer Bradley: Speak not against...

Speak not against anyone whose burden you have not weighed yourself.

Source: Black...

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Francoise Sagan: It seems to...

Francoise Sagan: It seems to...

It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the fronts people assume before one another's eyes, and the front...

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William Styron: A great book...

William Styron: A great book...

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while...

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Charles Morgan: As knowledge increases,...

Charles Morgan: As knowledge increases,...

As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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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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