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S J Perelman: A case of...

S J Perelman: A case of...

A case of the tail dogging the wag.

Source: Having escaped with some difficulty...

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Channing Pollock: Happiness is a...

Channing Pollock: Happiness is a...

Happiness is a way-station between too little and too much.

Source: Mr....

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Channing Pollock: No man in...

Channing Pollock: No man in...

No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

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A A Milne: My spelling is...

A A Milne: My spelling is...

My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong...

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George Ade: It isn't how...

George Ade: It isn't how...

It isn't how long you stick around but what you put over while you are here.

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Ernest Bramah: Where the road...

Ernest Bramah: Where the road...

Where the road bends abruptly, take short steps.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Italo Calvino: What Romantic terminology...

Italo Calvino: What Romantic terminology...

What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road...

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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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Maxine Hong Kingston: To me success...

Maxine Hong Kingston: To me success...

To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world -- that I...

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Herman Melville: If I have...

Herman Melville: If I have...

If I have done the hardest possible day's work, and then come to sit down in a corner and eat my supper comfortably...

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Mary Webb: The well of...

Mary Webb: The well of...

The well of Providence is deep. It's the buckets we bring to it that are small.

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James Fenimore Cooper: A refined simplicity...

James Fenimore Cooper: A refined simplicity...

A refined simplicity is the characteristic of all high bred deportment, in every country.

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Upton Sinclair: I aimed at...

Upton Sinclair: I aimed at...

I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.

Source:...

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Upton Sinclair: I am sustained...

Upton Sinclair: I am sustained...

I am sustained by a sense of the worthwhileness of what I am doing; a trust in the good faith of the process which...

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Sholem Asch: An illness is...

Sholem Asch: An illness is...

An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so remote...

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George MacDonald: To have what...

George MacDonald: To have what...

To have what we want is riches; but to do without is power.

Source: In The...

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Chinua Achebe: When old people...

Chinua Achebe: When old people...

When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which...

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Chinua Achebe: Stories serve the...

Chinua Achebe: Stories serve the...

Stories serve the purpose of consolidating whatever gains people or their leaders have made or imagine they have made...

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Joyce Cary: It is a...

Joyce Cary: It is a...

It is a tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know -- the less a man knows, the more sure it is that...

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Joyce Cary: For good and...

Joyce Cary: For good and...

For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in...

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