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Boris Pasternak: No bad man...

Boris Pasternak: No bad man...

No bad man can be a good poet.

Source: Quoted in Ilya Ehrenburg, Truce
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Sir Walter Scott: There is a...

Sir Walter Scott: There is a...

There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt...

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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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Max Eastman: I don't know...

Max Eastman: I don't know...

I don't know why it is we are in such a hurry to get up when we fall down. You might think we would lie there and rest...

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Maxine Hong Kingston: Before we can...

Maxine Hong Kingston: Before we can...

Before we can leave our parents, they stuff our heads like the suitcases which they jam-pack with homemade...

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Ernest J Gaines: Sometimes you got...

Ernest J Gaines: Sometimes you got...

Sometimes you got to hurt something to help something. Sometimes you have to plow under one thing in order for...

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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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Fawn M Brodie: Housework is a...

Fawn M Brodie: Housework is a...

Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like...

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Francois Rabelais: I am going...

Francois Rabelais: I am going...

I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.

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Herman Melville: For whatever is...

Herman Melville: For whatever is...

For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.

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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: The press, like...

James Fenimore Cooper: The press, like...

The press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.

Source: The...

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Gustave Flaubert: You must not...

Gustave Flaubert: You must not...

You must not think that feeling is everything. . . . Art is nothing without form.

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Douglas Adams: There is a...

Douglas Adams: There is a...

There is a theory that states: If anyone finds out what the universe is for it will disappear and be replaced by...

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Nelson Algren: The avocation of...

Nelson Algren: The avocation of...

The avocation of assessing the failures of better men can be turned into a comfortable livelihood, providing you back...

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Ivy Compton-Burnett: People who have...

Ivy Compton-Burnett: People who have...

People who have power respond simply. They have no minds but their own.

Source: In...

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Malcolm Bradbury: My experience of...

Malcolm Bradbury: My experience of...

My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do...

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Faith Baldwin: Men's private self-worlds...

Faith Baldwin: Men's private self-worlds...

Men's private self-worlds are rather like our geographical world's seasons, storm, and sun, deserts, oases, mountains...

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Faith Baldwin: Time is a...

Faith Baldwin: Time is a...

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Source: Face Toward the...

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Stephen Potter: There was one...

Stephen Potter: There was one...

There was one ploy of Gattling's which I found particularly effective, and I believe it must have been about this time...

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