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Jane Austen: An annuity is...

Jane Austen: An annuity is...

An annuity is a very serious business.

Source: (Mrs Dashwood) Sense and...

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Douglas Adams: You live and...

Douglas Adams: You live and...

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

Source: From a collection of quotations...

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Douglas Adams: In the beginning...

Douglas Adams: In the beginning...

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a...

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Elie Wiesel: Mankind must remember...

Elie Wiesel: Mankind must remember...

Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each...

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Man only likes...

Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Man only likes...

Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.

Source: Notes...

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Joyce Cary: It is the...

Joyce Cary: It is the...

It is the tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - and the less a man knows, the more sure he is...

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Edward Dahlberg: The bad poet...

Edward Dahlberg: The bad poet...

The bad poet is a toady mimicking nature.

Source: The Carnal Myth, ch. 5...

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Douglas Coupland: I like doing...

Douglas Coupland: I like doing...

I like doing radio because it's so intimate. The moment people hear your voice, you're inside there heads, not only...

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S J Perelman: The fact is...

S J Perelman: The fact is...

The fact is that all of us have only one personality, and we wring it out like a dishtowel. . . . You are what you...

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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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William Faulkner: If a writer...

William Faulkner: If a writer...

If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the Ode on a Grecian Urn is worth any number of old...

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Louisa May Alcott: It takes two...

Louisa May Alcott: It takes two...

It takes two flints to make a fire.

Source: Little Women, 1868.
-- Louisa May...

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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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James Fenimore Cooper: Principles . ....

James Fenimore Cooper: Principles . ....

Principles . . . become modified in practice, by facts.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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John Steinbeck: Four hoarse blasts...

John Steinbeck: Four hoarse blasts...

Four hoarse blasts of a ship's whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to...

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Francoise Sagan: Of course the...

Francoise Sagan: Of course the...

Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the...

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Louisa May Alcott: Rome took all...

Louisa May Alcott: Rome took all...

Rome took all the vanity out of me; for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant to live, and gave up...

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John Fowles: That is the...

John Fowles: That is the...

That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women see the relationships between...

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Graham Henry Greene: Champagne, if you...

Graham Henry Greene: Champagne, if you...

Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even...

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Graham Henry Greene: A major character...

Graham Henry Greene: A major character...

A major character has to come somehow out of the unconscious.

Source: In NY Times,...

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