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James Michener: The permanent temptation...

James Michener: The permanent temptation...

The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are...

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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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Leo Rosten: Words must surely...

Leo Rosten: Words must surely...

Words must surely be counted among the most powerful drugs man ever invented.

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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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Dorothy Miller Richardson: The question was...

Dorothy Miller Richardson: The question was...

The question was not how to get a job, but how to live by such jobs as I could get.

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Anne Rice: The truth is,...

Anne Rice: The truth is,...

The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly...

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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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Italo Calvino: The human race...

Italo Calvino: The human race...

The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.

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Arnold Bennett: To the artist...

Arnold Bennett: To the artist...

To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash,...

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Aldous Huxley: I wanted to...

Aldous Huxley: I wanted to...

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is...

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Marquis de Sade: It is certain...

Marquis de Sade: It is certain...

It is certain that stealing nourishes courage, strength, skill, tact, in a word, all the virtues useful to a...

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Robert Ludlum: The typewriter is...

Robert Ludlum: The typewriter is...

The typewriter is dusted and pencils are sharpened, doors are closed and heady music is played to drown out the sounds...

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Augusto Roa Bastos: What happens is...

Augusto Roa Bastos: What happens is...

What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind...

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Graham Henry Greene: God. . ....

Graham Henry Greene: God. . ....

God. . . created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed -- that is the meaning of...

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Angus Wilson: She was more...

Angus Wilson: She was more...

She was more than ever proud of the position of the bungalow, so almost in the country.

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E M Forster: Railway termini. ....

E M Forster: Railway termini. ....

Railway termini. . . are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and...

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P G Wodehouse: I know I...

P G Wodehouse: I know I...

I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don't know what I did before that. Just loafed I...

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P G Wodehouse: It is not...

P G Wodehouse: It is not...

It is not mere technical skill that makes a man a golfer, it is the golfing soul.

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Chinua Achebe: Stories serve the...

Chinua Achebe: Stories serve the...

Stories serve the purpose of consolidating whatever gains people or their leaders have made or imagine they have made...

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Osbert Sitwell: It is fatal...

Osbert Sitwell: It is fatal...

It is fatal to be appreciated in one's own time.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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