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Mark Twain: It usually takes...

Mark Twain: It usually takes...

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

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Thomas Wolfe: The surest cure...

Thomas Wolfe: The surest cure...

The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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George MacDonald: But for money...

George MacDonald: But for money...

But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if...

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Jane Austen: Why not seize...

Jane Austen: Why not seize...

Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish...

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Jane Austen: All the privilege...

Jane Austen: All the privilege...

All the privilege I claim for my own sex . . . is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is...

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Without some goal...

Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Without some goal...

Without some goal and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.

Source: In...

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky: To strive consciously...

Fyodor Dostoyevsky: To strive consciously...

To strive consciously for an object and to engage in engineering -- that is, incessantly and eternally to make new...

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Aldous Huxley: Thanks to words,...

Aldous Huxley: Thanks to words,...

Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of...

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Stendhal: It is the...

Stendhal: It is the...

It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from...

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn: A great writer...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: A great writer...

A great writer is, so to speak, a second government in his country. And for that reason no regime has ever loved great...

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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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Sholem Asch: The heathen spirit...

Sholem Asch: The heathen spirit...

The heathen spirit is wingless. It cannot lift itself to heights from which the totality of being is visible, and it...

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Sholem Asch: Not the power...

Sholem Asch: Not the power...

Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our...

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Henry Fielding: There is perhaps...

Henry Fielding: There is perhaps...

There is perhaps no surer mark of folly, than to attempt to correct natural infirmities of those we...

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Laurence Sterne: Nothing is so...

Laurence Sterne: Nothing is so...

Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.

Source: Tristram...

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Jane Austen: Where an opinion...

Jane Austen: Where an opinion...

Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.

Source: Mary Crawford, in...

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Vicki Baum: The deadliest feeling...

Vicki Baum: The deadliest feeling...

The deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman is pity.

Source: In The...

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Toni Morrison: We die. That...

Toni Morrison: We die. That...

We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our...

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Tillie Olsen: I know that...

Tillie Olsen: I know that...

I know that I haven't powers enough to divide myself into one who earns and one who...

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Amy Tan: If you can't...

Amy Tan: If you can't...

If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.

Source: In Words of Women...

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