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Peter Abrahams: You can't walk...

Peter Abrahams: You can't walk...

You can't walk alone, Many have given the illusion but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each...

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Leo Rosten: The writer wants...

Leo Rosten: The writer wants...

The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved. And that perhaps,...

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Nadine Gordimer: The creative act...

Nadine Gordimer: The creative act...

The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read...

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Alexandra Ripley: Books have become...

Alexandra Ripley: Books have become...

Books have become products like cereal or perfume or deodorant.

Source: In...

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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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Anzia Yezierska: Like all people...

Anzia Yezierska: Like all people...

Like all people who have nothing, I lived on dreams.

Source: The Miracle.
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Daphne DuMaurier: Writers should be...

Daphne DuMaurier: Writers should be...

Writers should be read -- but neither seen nor heard.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Malcolm Bradbury: If God had...

Malcolm Bradbury: If God had...

If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had 10 Commandments. We'd have had The 10...

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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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John Oliver Killens: Life is a...

John Oliver Killens: Life is a...

Life is a short walk. There is so little time and so much living to achieve.

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Enid Bagnold: The theatre is...

Enid Bagnold: The theatre is...

The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second...

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Rose Tremain: Life should be...

Rose Tremain: Life should be...

Life should be embraced like a lover.

Source: In ...As One Mad With Wine, by Elyse...

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Enid Bagnold: When a man...

Enid Bagnold: When a man...

When a man goes through six years' training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too...

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Enid Bagnold: The great and...

Enid Bagnold: The great and...

The great and terrible step was taken. What else could you expect from a girl so expectant? 'Sex,' said Frank Harris,...

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Marguerite Duras: Acting doesn't bring...

Marguerite Duras: Acting doesn't bring...

Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it.

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Thomas Hardy: That man's silence...

Thomas Hardy: That man's silence...

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Source: Spinks, in Under the...

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Jack Kerouac: No man should...

Jack Kerouac: No man should...

No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding...

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Boris Pasternak: I think that...

Boris Pasternak: I think that...

I think that if the beast who sleeps in man could be held down by threats of any kind, whether of jail or retribution,...

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Joyce Carol Oates: We inhabit ourselves...

Joyce Carol Oates: We inhabit ourselves...

We inhabit ourselves without valuing ourselves, unable to see that here, now, this very moment is sacred; but once...

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Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco: Being in a...

Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco: Being in a...

Being in a hurry is one of the tributes he pays to life.

Source: Balloons,...

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