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Charles Horton Cooley: To cease to...

Charles Horton Cooley: To cease to...

To cease to admire is a proof of deterioration.

Source: Human Nature and the Social...

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E Franklin Frazier: The Negro does...

E Franklin Frazier: The Negro does...

The Negro does not want love. He wants justice . . . I believe it would be better for the Negro's soul to be seared...

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E Franklin Frazier: The closer a...

E Franklin Frazier: The closer a...

The closer a Negro got to the ballot box, the more he looked like a rapist.

Source:...

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Christiaan Barnard: I don't believe...

Christiaan Barnard: I don't believe...

I don't believe medical discoveries are doing much to advance human life. As fast as we create ways to extend it we...

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Han Suyin: There is nothing...

Han Suyin: There is nothing...

There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.

Source: A Many Spendored...

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Stanislaw Lem: Faith is, at...

Stanislaw Lem: Faith is, at...

Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.

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E L Konigsburg: Often the search...

E L Konigsburg: Often the search...

Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Source: The Mixed-Up Files...

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E L Konigsburg: The adventure is...

E L Konigsburg: The adventure is...

The adventure is over. Everything gets over, and nothing is ever enough. Except the part you carry with...

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Max Frisch: When you say...

Max Frisch: When you say...

When you say a friend has a sense of humor do you mean that he makes you laugh, or that he can make you...

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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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