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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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Sir Walter Scott: Oh what a...

Sir Walter Scott: Oh what a...

Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!

Source: In The...

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Edith Wharton: I have never...

Edith Wharton: I have never...

I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political...

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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: Only in men's...

Joseph Conrad: Only in men's...

Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is...

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Elizabeth Gaskell: People may flatter...

Elizabeth Gaskell: People may flatter...

People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds,...

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Richard Wright: I would hurl...

Richard Wright: I would hurl...

I would hurl words into the darkness and wait for an echo. If an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send...

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Richard Wright: Men can starve...

Richard Wright: Men can starve...

Men can starve from lack of self-realization as much as they can from lack of bread.

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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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Stephen King: People want to...

Stephen King: People want to...

People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy...

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Jeremy Taylor: No man is...

Jeremy Taylor: No man is...

No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims...

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Richard Cecil: Self-will so ardent...

Richard Cecil: Self-will so ardent...

Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Tis a rule...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Tis a rule...

'Tis a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration.

Source: Letters and Social Aims,...

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Diogenes: A man should...

Diogenes: A man should...

A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire; not too near, lest he burn; not too far off, lest he...

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Benedict Spinoza: If you want...

Benedict Spinoza: If you want...

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

Source: In...

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Chuang-tzu: He who knows...

Chuang-tzu: He who knows...

He who knows he is a fool is not the biggest fool. He who knows he is confused is not in the worst...

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Socrates: The beginning of...

Socrates: The beginning of...

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Source: In The Book of Success,...

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Henry Highland Garnet: Let your motto...

Henry Highland Garnet: Let your motto...

Let your motto be resistance! resistance! RESISTANCE! No oppressed people have ever secured their liberty without...

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Marianne Williamson: Birth is violent,...

Marianne Williamson: Birth is violent,...

Birth is violent, whether it be the birth of a child or the birth of an idea.

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Lemuel B Haynes: Had the devil...

Lemuel B Haynes: Had the devil...

Had the devil come to our first parents personally and unmasked, they would have more easily seen the...

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