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Franklin Pierce: There's nothing left...

Franklin Pierce: There's nothing left...

There's nothing left . . . but to get drunk.

Source: When asked what a President...

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Jimmy Carter: Government is a...

Jimmy Carter: Government is a...

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these...

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Elie Wiesel: We have to...

Elie Wiesel: We have to...

We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something...

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James Allen: Our life is...

James Allen: Our life is...

Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people,...

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John Steinbeck: I know this...

John Steinbeck: I know this...

I know this -- a man got to do what he got to do.

Source: The Grapes of...

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George Eliot: It seems to...

George Eliot: It seems to...

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we...

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Gloria Naylor: One should be...

Gloria Naylor: One should be...

One should be able to return to the first sentence of a novel and find the resonances of the entire...

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Francois Mauriac: Men resemble great...

Francois Mauriac: Men resemble great...

Men resemble great deserted palaces: the owner occupies only a few rooms and has closed-off wings where he never...

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Mark Twain: It is not...

Mark Twain: It is not...

It is not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that make...

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Mark Twain: Name the greatest...

Mark Twain: Name the greatest...

Name the greatest of all the inventors. Accident.

Source: Notebook, 1935.
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George Eliot: There is a...

George Eliot: There is a...

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our...

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Emily Bronte: Love is like...

Emily Bronte: Love is like...

Love is like the wild-rose briar;
Friendship is like the holly-tree.
The holly is dark when the rose briar...

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Emily Bronte: If I could...

Emily Bronte: If I could...

If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their...

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Jean Rhys: She could give...

Jean Rhys: She could give...

She could give herself up to the written word as naturally as a good dancer to music or a fine swimmer to water. But...

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Paul Theroux: The realization that...

Paul Theroux: The realization that...

The realization that he is white in a black country, and respected for it, is the turning point in the expatriate's...

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Tama Janowitz: I was like...

Tama Janowitz: I was like...

I was like a social worker for lepers. My clients had a chunk of their body they wanted to give away; for a price I...

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E B White: From three to...

E B White: From three to...

From three to four, he planned to stand perfectly still and think of what it was like to be...

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Edmund Clerihew Bentley: Sir Humphry Davy<br>Abominated...

Edmund Clerihew Bentley: Sir Humphry Davy
Abominated...

Sir Humphry Davy
Abominated gravy.
He lived in the odium
Of having discovered...

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Frederick Douglass: A little learning,...

Frederick Douglass: A little learning,...

A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any...

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William Golding: Novelists do not...

William Golding: Novelists do not...

Novelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is part of the job that there should be much routine...

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