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J G Ballard: A car crash...

J G Ballard: A car crash...

A car crash harnesses elements of eroticism, aggression, desire, speed, drama, kinaesthetic factors, the stylizing of...

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J G Ballard: The car as...

J G Ballard: The car as...

The car as we know it is on the way out. To a large extent, I deplore its passing, for as a basically old-fashioned...

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Marquis de Sade: Are wars. ....

Marquis de Sade: Are wars. ....

Are wars. . . anything but the means whereby a nation is nourished, whereby it is strengthened, whereby it is...

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Marquis de Sade: It is certain...

Marquis de Sade: It is certain...

It is certain that stealing nourishes courage, strength, skill, tact, in a word, all the virtues useful to a...

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Graham Henry Greene: Catholics and Communists...

Graham Henry Greene: Catholics and Communists...

Catholics and Communists have committed great crimes, but at least they have not stood aside, like an established...

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Graham Henry Greene: My two fingers...

Graham Henry Greene: My two fingers...

My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course....

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Robert Ludlum: . . ....

Robert Ludlum: . . ....

. . . If you lose their interest, your're closing Saturday night.

Source: Ludlum on...

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S J Perelman: For years I...

S J Perelman: For years I...

For years I have let dentists ride roughshod over my teeth: I have been sawed, hacked, chopped, whittled, bewitched,...

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Edmund Clerihew Bentley: What I like...

Edmund Clerihew Bentley: What I like...

What I like about Clive
Is that he is no longer alive.
There is a great deal to be said
For being...

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Frederick Douglass: We have to...

Frederick Douglass: We have to...

We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Innovators and men...

Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Innovators and men...

Innovators and men of genius have almost always been regarded as fools at the beginning (and very often at the end) of...

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William Faulkner: A writer needs...

William Faulkner: A writer needs...

A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which,...

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William Faulkner: The end of...

William Faulkner: The end of...

The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.

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Mary Webb: Saddle your dreams...

Mary Webb: Saddle your dreams...

Saddle your dreams afore you ride 'ern.

Source: Precious Bane, 1924.
-- Mary...

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Mary Webb: When you dwell...

Mary Webb: When you dwell...

When you dwell in a house you mislike, you will look out of a window a deal more than those that are content with...

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Arnold Bennett: To the artist...

Arnold Bennett: To the artist...

To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash,...

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Hermann Hesse: All men are...

Hermann Hesse: All men are...

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

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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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William Makepeace Thackeray: Attacking is the...

William Makepeace Thackeray: Attacking is the...

Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it...

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Jane Austen: I do not...

Jane Austen: I do not...

I do not want people to be very agreeable, it saves me the trouble of liking them a great...

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