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Willa Cather: Give the people...

Willa Cather: Give the people...

Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.

Source: On Writing,...

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Joseph Conrad: A word carries...

Joseph Conrad: A word carries...

A word carries far -- very far -- deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through...

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Elizabeth Gaskell: How easy it...

Elizabeth Gaskell: How easy it...

How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly!

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Stephen King: Talent in cheaper...

Stephen King: Talent in cheaper...

Talent in cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard...

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Frederick Buechner: You can't be...

Frederick Buechner: You can't be...

You can't be too careful what you tell a child because you never know what he'll take hold of and spend the rest of...

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Hosea Ballou: Hatred is self-punishment....

Hosea Ballou: Hatred is self-punishment....

Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred it the coward's revenge for being intimidated.

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Henry Ward Beecher: Books are not...

Henry Ward Beecher: Books are not...

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a...

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Norman Vincent Peale: Throw your heart...

Norman Vincent Peale: Throw your heart...

Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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A A Milne: One of the...

A A Milne: One of the...

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting...

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Ernest Hemingway: Cowardice . ....

Ernest Hemingway: Cowardice . ....

Cowardice . . . is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the...

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P D James: A man who...

P D James: A man who...

A man who lives with nature is used to violence and is companionable with death. There is more violence in an English...

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P D James: It was not...

P D James: It was not...

It was not . . . that she was unaware of the frayed and ragged edges of life. She would merely iron them out with a...

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William Golding: The journey of...

William Golding: The journey of...

The journey of life is like a man riding a bicycle. We know he got on the bicycle and started to move. We know that at...

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Herman Melville: For whatever is...

Herman Melville: For whatever is...

For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.

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Mary Webb: The well of...

Mary Webb: The well of...

The well of Providence is deep. It's the buckets we bring to it that are small.

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Mary Webb: The more anybody...

Mary Webb: The more anybody...

The more anybody wants a thing, the more they do think others want it.

Source:...

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Gustave Flaubert: To see one's...

Gustave Flaubert: To see one's...

To see one's name in print! Some people commit a crime for no other reason.

Source:...

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James Michener: The really great...

James Michener: The really great...

The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and...

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Laurence Sterne: Learning is the...

Laurence Sterne: Learning is the...

Learning is the dictionary, but sense the grammar of science.

Source: In Wisdom of...

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Laurence Sterne: An actor should...

Laurence Sterne: An actor should...

An actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand.

Source: In...

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