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Alexandra Ripley: [The publishers] wanted...

Alexandra Ripley: [The publishers] wanted...

[The publishers] wanted some kind of book that lands on the best-seller list again and again. They didn't understand...

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Anais Nin: Dreams pass into...

Anais Nin: Dreams pass into...

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the action stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the...

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Natalia Ginzburg: As soon as...

Natalia Ginzburg: As soon as...

As soon as we see our dreams betrayed we realize that the intensest joys of our life have nothing to do with reality,...

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Robert Stone: I start early...

Robert Stone: I start early...

I start early in the morning. I'm usually out in the woods with the dog as soon as it gets light; then I drink a whole...

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Louis L'Amour: Victory is not...

Louis L'Amour: Victory is not...

Victory is not won in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later win a little...

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Samuel Smiles: It is a...

Samuel Smiles: It is a...

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept,...

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Kenneth Grahame: The strongest human...

Kenneth Grahame: The strongest human...

The strongest human instinct is to impart information, the second strongest is to resist...

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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.

Source:...

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William H Gass: If you believed...

William H Gass: If you believed...

If you believed yourself to be a writer of . . . eminence, you are now assured of being over the hill not a sturdy...

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John Mortimer: I think I'm...

John Mortimer: I think I'm...

I think I'm thoroughly in favour of Mrs. Thatcher's visit to the Falklands. I find a bit of hesitation, though, about...

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Boris Pasternak: As far as...

Boris Pasternak: As far as...

As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. . . ....

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Boris Pasternak: In view of...

Boris Pasternak: In view of...

In view of the meaning given to this honor in the community to which I belong, I should abstain from the undeserved...

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Boris Pasternak: Art always serves...

Boris Pasternak: Art always serves...

Art always serves beauty, and beauty is the joy of possessing form, and form is the key to organic life since no...

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Sir Walter Scott: Oh what a...

Sir Walter Scott: Oh what a...

Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!

Source: In The...

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Dorothy Gilman: If something anticipated...

Dorothy Gilman: If something anticipated...

If something anticipated arrives too late it finds us numb, wrung out from waiting, and we feel -- nothing at...

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Max Eastman: Dogs laugh, but...

Max Eastman: Dogs laugh, but...

Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. What puts man in a higher state of evolution is that he has got his laugh...

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Dwight D Eisenhower: An intellectual is...

Dwight D Eisenhower: An intellectual is...

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

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George III: [O]nce vigorous measures...

George III: [O]nce vigorous measures...

[O]nce vigorous measures appear to be the only means left of bringing the Americans to a due submission to the mother...

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Christina of Sweden: As you know,...

Christina of Sweden: As you know,...

As you know, no one over thirty years of age is afraid of tittle-tattle. I myself find it much less difficult to...

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Louis XIV: Every time I...

Louis XIV: Every time I...

Every time I bestow a vacant office I make a hundred discontented persons and one ingrate.

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