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Frederick Douglass: A man's character...

Frederick Douglass: A man's character...

A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about...

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P D James: God gives every...

P D James: God gives every...

God gives every bird his worm, but He does not throw it into the nest.

Source:...

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Dorothy Gilman: A man from...

Dorothy Gilman: A man from...

A man from hell is not afraid of hot ashes.

Source: Incident at Badamaya,...

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Neither man nor...

Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Neither man nor...

Neither man nor nation can exist without a sublime idea.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Francois Rabelais: Science without conscience...

Francois Rabelais: Science without conscience...

Science without conscience is the death of the soul.

Source: (c. 1494-1553) French...

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Mark Twain: Methuselah lived to...

Mark Twain: Methuselah lived to...

Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in...

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Sholem Asch: It has been...

Sholem Asch: It has been...

It has been said that writing comes more easily if you have something to say.

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Henry Fielding: The prudence of...

Henry Fielding: The prudence of...

The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.

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Thomas Wolfe: Men will often...

Thomas Wolfe: Men will often...

Men will often say they have 'found themselves' when they have really been worn down into a groove by the brutal and...

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Thomas Wolfe: If a man...

Thomas Wolfe: If a man...

If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the...

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Edna Ferber: Big doesn't necessarily...

Edna Ferber: Big doesn't necessarily...

Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.

Source:...

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Chinua Achebe: People create stories...

Chinua Achebe: People create stories...

People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.

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Margaret Mitchell: What most people...

Margaret Mitchell: What most people...

What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a...

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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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Dinah Mulock Craik: There was never...

Dinah Mulock Craik: There was never...

There was never a night that had no morn.

Source: The Golden Gate, Mulock's Poems,...

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Toni Morrison: The ability of...

Toni Morrison: The ability of...

The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the...

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Toni Morrison: Bit by bit...

Toni Morrison: Bit by bit...

Bit by bit . . . she had claimed herself. Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was...

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Elizabeth Stuart Phelps: A great idea...

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps: A great idea...

A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas...

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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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Jean Rhys: I am sad,...

Jean Rhys: I am sad,...

I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness, sad as an eagle without wings, sad as a violin with only one string and one that is...

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