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Charles W Chesnutt: There's time enough,...

Charles W Chesnutt: There's time enough,...

There's time enough, but none to spare.

Source: The Marrow of Tradition,...

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Edna O'Brien: I'm a tuning...

Edna O'Brien: I'm a tuning...

I'm a tuning fork, tense and twanging all the time.

Source: In An Uncommon Scold,...

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William H Gass: Life is itself...

William H Gass: Life is itself...

Life is itself exile . . . It is a blow from which only death will recover us.

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Enid Bagnold: Judges don't age....

Enid Bagnold: Judges don't age....

Judges don't age. Time decorates them.

Source: Judge, in The Chalk Garden, act...

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Anthony Hope: I may not...

Anthony Hope: I may not...

I may not understand, but I am willing to admire.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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John Mortimer: No brilliance is...

John Mortimer: No brilliance is...

No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger...

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Sylvia Plath: I shut my...

Sylvia Plath: I shut my...

I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my eyes and all is born again.


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George Meredith: Passions spin the...

George Meredith: Passions spin the...

Passions spin the plot:
We are betrayed by what is false within.


Source: Modern...

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George Meredith: Cynicism is intellectual...

George Meredith: Cynicism is intellectual...

Cynicism is intellectual dandyism without the coxcomb's feathers.

Source: Clara...

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John Sterling: The worst education...

John Sterling: The worst education...

The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not...

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Thomas Love Peacock: A book that...

Thomas Love Peacock: A book that...

A book that furnishes no quotations is, me judice, no book -- it is a plaything.

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Thomas Love Peacock: Respectable means rich,...

Thomas Love Peacock: Respectable means rich,...

Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called...

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Boris Pasternak: Everything established, settled,...

Boris Pasternak: Everything established, settled,...

Everything established, settled, everything to do with home and order and the common round, has crumbled into dust and...

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Joyce Carol Oates: Where we come...

Joyce Carol Oates: Where we come...

Where we come from in America no longer signifies. It's where we go, and what we do when we get there, that tells us...

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Helen Hunt Jackson: The mighty are...

Helen Hunt Jackson: The mighty are...

The mighty are brought low by many a thing
Too small to name. Beneath the daisy's disk
Lies hid the pebble for...

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Helen Hunt Jackson: Oh, write of...

Helen Hunt Jackson: Oh, write of...

Oh, write of me, not Died in bitter pains,
But Emigrated to another star!


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Mark Twain: A crime persevered...

Mark Twain: A crime persevered...

A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the law of custom, and...

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S J Perelman: You've a sharp...

S J Perelman: You've a sharp...

You've a sharp tongue in your head, Mr Essick. Look out it doesn't cut your throat.

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S J Perelman: The fact is...

S J Perelman: The fact is...

The fact is that all of us have only one personality, and we wring it out like a dishtowel. . . . You are what you...

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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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