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Peter Abrahams: With Shakespeare and...

Peter Abrahams: With Shakespeare and...

With Shakespeare and poetry, a new world was born. New dreams, new desires, a self consciousness was born. I desired...

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Vicki Baum: A woman who...

Vicki Baum: A woman who...

A woman who is loved always has success.

Source: Grand Hotel, 1929.
-- Vicki...

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Nadine Gordimer: Truth isn't always...

Nadine Gordimer: Truth isn't always...

Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Source: A Bolter and the...

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Malcolm Bradbury: If God had...

Malcolm Bradbury: If God had...

If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had 10 Commandments. We'd have had The 10...

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Tama Janowitz: I was like...

Tama Janowitz: I was like...

I was like a social worker for lepers. My clients had a chunk of their body they wanted to give away; for a price I...

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Barbara Cartland: Of course they...

Barbara Cartland: Of course they...

Of course they have, or I wouldn't be sitting here talking to someone like you.

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J G Ballard: We live in...

J G Ballard: We live in...

We live in a world ruled by fictions of every kind -- mass merchandising, advertising, politics conducted as a branch...

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Edward Dahlberg: Writing is conscience,...

Edward Dahlberg: Writing is conscience,...

Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.

Source: Alms for...

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Hugh Walpole: The whole secret...

Hugh Walpole: The whole secret...

The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and a thousand other things...

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Orson Scott Card: Welcome to the...

Orson Scott Card: Welcome to the...

Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life. The best you can do is choose to be controlled by good...

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Charles Dickens: Think! I've got...

Charles Dickens: Think! I've got...

Think! I've got enough to do, and little enough to get for it, without thinking.

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Gloria Naylor: Spoiled. That's all...

Gloria Naylor: Spoiled. That's all...

Spoiled. That's all it's about -- can't live without this, can't live without that. You can live without anything you...

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Francois Mauriac: I write whenever...

Francois Mauriac: I write whenever...

I write whenever it suits me. During a creative period I write every day; a novel should not be interrupted. When I...

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Sir Walter Besant: I am afraid...

Sir Walter Besant: I am afraid...

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best...

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Jean Paul: No one is...

Jean Paul: No one is...

No one is more profoundly sad as one who laughs too much.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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P G Wodehouse: New York is...

P G Wodehouse: New York is...

New York is a small place when it comes to the part of it that wakes up just as the rest is going to...

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P G Wodehouse: It is a...

P G Wodehouse: It is a...

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take...

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Christopher Morley: Life is a...

Christopher Morley: Life is a...

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Source: Thunder on the Left,...

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Christopher Morley: High heels were...

Christopher Morley: High heels were...

High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.

Source: In...

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Mark Twain: The man with...

Mark Twain: The man with...

The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

Source: Following the...

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