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Vance Palmer: Anyone who takes...

Vance Palmer: Anyone who takes...

Anyone who takes no delight in the firm outline of an object, or in its essential character, has no artistic sense. ....

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Channing Pollock: Calm self-confidence is...

Channing Pollock: Calm self-confidence is...

Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from...

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Ernest Bramah: There are those...

Ernest Bramah: There are those...

There are those who collect the refuse of the public streets, but in order to be received into the band it is...

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Ernest Bramah: One cannot live...

Ernest Bramah: One cannot live...

One cannot live for ever by ignoring the price of coffins.

Source: Kai Lung Unrolls...

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Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco: It is never...

Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco: It is never...

It is never any good dwelling on goodbyes. It is not the being together it prolongs, it is the...

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Max Frisch: When you say...

Max Frisch: When you say...

When you say a friend has a sense of humor do you mean that he makes you laugh, or that he can make you...

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Elizabeth Bowen: Jealousy is no...

Elizabeth Bowen: Jealousy is no...

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

Source: The House...

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Natalia Ginzburg: Today, as never...

Natalia Ginzburg: Today, as never...

Today, as never before, the fates of men are so intimately linked to one another that a disaster for one is a disaster...

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Maxine Hong Kingston: The sweat of...

Maxine Hong Kingston: The sweat of...

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the...

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Lydia M Child: Every man deems...

Lydia M Child: Every man deems...

Every man deems that he has precisely the trials and temptations which are the hardest of all others for him to bear;...

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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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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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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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