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Elie Wiesel: Most people think...

Elie Wiesel: Most people think...

Most people think that shadows follow, precede, or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround...

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Jean Rhys: The feeling of...

Jean Rhys: The feeling of...

The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere, heavy, melancholy, standing still. Like when they say, As it was in...

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Malcolm Bradbury: Culture is a...

Malcolm Bradbury: Culture is a...

Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.

Source: In The...

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Malcolm Bradbury: My experience of...

Malcolm Bradbury: My experience of...

My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do...

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Paul Theroux: Fiction gives us...

Paul Theroux: Fiction gives us...

Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us.

Source: In NY Times, 28 Jul...

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Rachel Field: I used to...

Rachel Field: I used to...

I used to think I had ambition . . . but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily...

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Mary Martha Sherwood: . . ....

Mary Martha Sherwood: . . ....

. . . a dirty exterior is a great enemy to beauty of all descriptions.

Source: The...

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Margery Allingham: Self-satisfaction is the...

Margery Allingham: Self-satisfaction is the...

Self-satisfaction is the state of mind of those who have the happy conviction that they are not as other...

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Maxine Hong Kingston: I learned to...

Maxine Hong Kingston: I learned to...

I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for...

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Ernest J Gaines: Question everything. Every...

Ernest J Gaines: Question everything. Every...

Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything.

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Ernest J Gaines: We wait till...

Ernest J Gaines: We wait till...

We wait till now? Now, when we're old men, we get to be brave?

Source: A Gathering...

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Romain Rolland: I know at...

Romain Rolland: I know at...

I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries.

Source: In...

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Enid Bagnold: Who wants to...

Enid Bagnold: Who wants to...

Who wants to become a writer? And why? Because it's the answer to everything. To Why am I here? To uselessness. It's...

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Anthony Hope: I may not...

Anthony Hope: I may not...

I may not understand, but I am willing to admire.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Anthony Hope: He is very...

Anthony Hope: He is very...

He is very fond of making things which he does not want, and then giving them to people who have no use for...

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Enid Bagnold: If a dog...

Enid Bagnold: If a dog...

If a dog doesn't put you first where are you both? In what relation? A dog needs God. It lives by your glances, your...

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Marguerite Duras: You have to...

Marguerite Duras: You have to...

You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be very fond of them to love them. Otherwise they're...

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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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Thomas Hardy: If Galileo had...

Thomas Hardy: If Galileo had...

If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have left him...

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George Meredith: The man of...

George Meredith: The man of...

The man of science is nothing if not a poet gone wrong.

Source: In Isaac Asimov's...

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