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William Styron: A great book...

William Styron: A great book...

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while...

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William Styron: The good writing...

William Styron: The good writing...

The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's, neurosis.

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Alan Paton: I have one...

Alan Paton: I have one...

I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they (the whites of South Africa) have turned to loving, they...

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John Fowles: Time is not...

John Fowles: Time is not...

Time is not a road -- it is a room.

Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed....

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Robert Ludlum: The Road to...

Robert Ludlum: The Road to...

The Road to Gandolfo is one of those rare if insance accidents that can happen to a writer perhaps once or twice in...

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Harper Lee: I'm no idealist...

Harper Lee: I'm no idealist...

I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system -- that is no ideal to me, it...

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George MacDonald: No man ever...

George MacDonald: No man ever...

No man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the...

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky: To strive consciously...

Fyodor Dostoyevsky: To strive consciously...

To strive consciously for an object and to engage in engineering -- that is, incessantly and eternally to make new...

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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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Toni Morrison: Most of our...

Toni Morrison: Most of our...

Most of our lives are spent in little towns, little towns all throughout the country. That's where we live. And...

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Theodore Dreiser: Let no one...

Theodore Dreiser: Let no one...

Let no one underestimate the need of pity. We live in a stony universe whose hard, brilliant forces rage...

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Gloria Naylor: Not only is...

Gloria Naylor: Not only is...

Not only is your story worth telling, but it can be told in words so painstakingly eloquent that it becomes a...

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Richard Bach: That's what learning...

Richard Bach: That's what learning...

That's what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed because of it...

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Anthony Burgess: Americans will listen,...

Anthony Burgess: Americans will listen,...

Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which...

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Rudolph Fisher: Maybe . ....

Rudolph Fisher: Maybe . ....

Maybe . . . she ain't so possible as she looks.

Source: Common Meter.
-- Rudolph...

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Marguerite Duras: You have to...

Marguerite Duras: You have to...

You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be very fond of them to love them. Otherwise they're...

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Eden Phillpotts: His father's sister...

Eden Phillpotts: His father's sister...

His father's sister had bats in the belfry and was put away.

Source: My First...

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Thomas Hardy: If Galileo had...

Thomas Hardy: If Galileo had...

If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have left him...

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Judith Viorst: Superstition is foolish,...

Judith Viorst: Superstition is foolish,...

Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational -- but how much does it cost you to knock on...

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Boris Pasternak: Immensely grateful, touched,...

Boris Pasternak: Immensely grateful, touched,...

Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.

Source: Telegram accepting...

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