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Knut Hamsun: A word can...

Knut Hamsun: A word can...

A word can be transformed into a coulour, light, a smell; it is the writer's task to use it in such a way that it...

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Emily Bronte: I'll walk where...

Emily Bronte: I'll walk where...

I'll walk where my own nature would be leading-
It vexes me to choose another guide.


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Vance Palmer: Anyone who takes...

Vance Palmer: Anyone who takes...

Anyone who takes no delight in the firm outline of an object, or in its essential character, has no artistic sense. ....

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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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Margery Allingham: He did not...

Margery Allingham: He did not...

He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding flash...

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Natalia Ginzburg: Every day silence...

Natalia Ginzburg: Every day silence...

Every day silence harvests its victims. Silence is a mortal illness.

Source: The...

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Mickey Spillane: I'm a commercial...

Mickey Spillane: I'm a commercial...

I'm a commercial writer, not an author. Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one...

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Charles Dickens: Think! I've got...

Charles Dickens: Think! I've got...

Think! I've got enough to do, and little enough to get for it, without thinking.

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Charles Dickens: Change begets change....

Charles Dickens: Change begets change....

Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast.

Source: Martin Chuzzlewit, ch....

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Charles Dickens: It is a...

Charles Dickens: It is a...

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

Source:...

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Louisa May Alcott: People don't have...

Louisa May Alcott: People don't have...

People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a...

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Louisa May Alcott: People want to...

Louisa May Alcott: People want to...

People want to be amused, not preached at, you know. Morals don't sell nowadays.

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Graham Henry Greene: Innocence is like...

Graham Henry Greene: Innocence is like...

Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no...

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Graham Henry Greene: Of course, before...

Graham Henry Greene: Of course, before...

Of course, before we know he is a saint, there will have to be miracles.

Source:...

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George Eliot: There is a...

George Eliot: There is a...

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our...

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Literature transmits incontrovertible...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Literature transmits incontrovertible...

Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience . . . from generation to generation. In this way literature...

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William Makepeace Thackeray: Novelty has charms...

William Makepeace Thackeray: Novelty has charms...

Novelty has charms that our mind can hardly withstand.

Source: In Correct Quotes...

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Nadine Gordimer: Truth isn't always...

Nadine Gordimer: Truth isn't always...

Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Source: A Bolter and the...

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Alexandra Ripley: We're not home-and-hearth...

Alexandra Ripley: We're not home-and-hearth...

We're not home-and-hearth people. We're the adventurers, the buccaneers, the blockade runners. Without challenge,...

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Anzia Yezierska: The power that...

Anzia Yezierska: The power that...

The power that makes the grass grow, fruit ripen, and guides the bird in flight is in us...

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