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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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Don Delillo: To be a...

Don Delillo: To be a...

To be a tourist is to escape accountability. Errors and failings don't cling to you the way they do back home. ...

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Norman Douglas: What is all...

Norman Douglas: What is all...

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? Take fifty of our current proverbial sayings -- they are so trite,...

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Norman Douglas: They who are...

Norman Douglas: They who are...

They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves.

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Robert Ludlum: The Road to...

Robert Ludlum: The Road to...

The Road to Gandolfo is one of those rare if insance accidents that can happen to a writer perhaps once or twice in...

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Peter De Vries: Words fashioned with...

Peter De Vries: Words fashioned with...

Words fashioned with somewhat over precise diction are like shapes turned out by a cookie...

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Mary Roberts Rinehart: The great God...

Mary Roberts Rinehart: The great God...

The great God endows His children variously. To some He gives intellect and they move the earth. To some He allots...

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Eden Phillpotts: His father's sister...

Eden Phillpotts: His father's sister...

His father's sister had bats in the belfry and was put away.

Source: My First...

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Daniel Moynihan: Citizen participation [is]...

Daniel Moynihan: Citizen participation [is]...

Citizen participation [is] a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the...

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