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Natalie Clifford Barney: The advantage of...

Natalie Clifford Barney: The advantage of...

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Source: In...

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Rudolph Fisher: Angels rush in...

Rudolph Fisher: Angels rush in...

Angels rush in when fools are almost dead.

Source: Blades of Steel, 1927.
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Rose Tremain: There is something...

Rose Tremain: There is something...

There is something about the unexpected that moves us. As if the whole of existence is paid for in some way, except...

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James Agee: In every child...

James Agee: In every child...

In every child who is born, under no matter what circumstances, and no matter what parents, the potentiality of the...

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Sir Walter Scott: When a man...

Sir Walter Scott: When a man...

When a man has not a good reason for doing a thing, he has one good reason for letting it...

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Dr Seuss: Preachers in pulpits...

Dr Seuss: Preachers in pulpits...

Preachers in pulpits talked about what a great message is in the book. No matter what you do, somebody always imputes...

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Dr Seuss: Today was good.<br>Today...

Dr Seuss: Today was good.
Today...

Today was good.
Today was fun.
Tomorrow is another one.


Source: In Webster's...

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J P Donleavy: But Jesus, when...

J P Donleavy: But Jesus, when...

But Jesus, when you don't have any money, the problem is food. When you have money, it's sex. When you have both, it's...

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John Galsworthy: One's eyes are...

John Galsworthy: One's eyes are...

One's eyes are what one is, one's mouth what one becomes.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Corrie Ten Boom: Faith is like...

Corrie Ten Boom: Faith is like...

Faith is like radar that sees through the fog -- the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot...

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Gaston Bachelard: There is no...

Gaston Bachelard: There is no...

There is no original truth, only original error.

Source: Fragments of a Poetics of...

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James Joyce: Art is the...

James Joyce: Art is the...

Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.

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Anita Loos: I always think...

Anita Loos: I always think...

I always think that the most delightful thing about traveling is to always be running into Americans and to always...

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Anne Tyler: People always call...

Anne Tyler: People always call...

People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.

Source:...

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William H Gass: [For the speedy...

William H Gass: [For the speedy...

[For the speedy reader] paragraphs become a country the eye flies over looking for landmarks, reference points,...

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Mary Roberts Rinehart: The great God...

Mary Roberts Rinehart: The great God...

The great God endows His children variously. To some He gives intellect and they move the earth. To some He allots...

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Anne Bronte: But he that...

Anne Bronte: But he that...

But he that dares not grasp the thorn
Should never crave the rose.


Source: The...

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John Sterling: The worst education...

John Sterling: The worst education...

The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not...

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Naomi Mitchison: It was as...

Naomi Mitchison: It was as...

It was as though there was a film going on inside my head, and I was watching it as it went by. I was completely...

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Norman Douglas: They who are...

Norman Douglas: They who are...

They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves.

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