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Alex Haley: I look...

Alex Haley: I look...

I look at my books the way parents look at their children. The fact that one becomes more successful than the others...

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Sholem Asch: I love the...

Sholem Asch: I love the...

I love the place; the magnificent books; I require books as I require air.

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Man only likes...

Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Man only likes...

Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.

Source: Notes...

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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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Joyce Cary: Remember I'm an...

Joyce Cary: Remember I'm an...

Remember I'm an artist. And you know what that means in a court of law. Next worst to an...

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Romain Rolland: Skepticism, riddling the...

Romain Rolland: Skepticism, riddling the...

Skepticism, riddling the faith of yesterday, prepares the way for the faith of tomorrow.

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Edna O'Brien: Writers live in...

Edna O'Brien: Writers live in...

Writers live in the mind and in hotels of the soul.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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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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Marguerite Duras: The best way...

Marguerite Duras: The best way...

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Source: Practicalities, Wasting Time,...

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Anthony Hope: Bourgeois,' I observed,...

Anthony Hope: Bourgeois,' I observed,...

'Bourgeois,' I observed, 'is an epithet which the riff-raff apply to what is respectable, and the aristocracy to what...

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John Mortimer: When you get...

John Mortimer: When you get...

When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the...

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Carlos Fuentes: If the Soviet...

Carlos Fuentes: If the Soviet...

If the Soviet Union can give up the Brezhnev Doctrine for the Sinatra Doctrine, the United States can give up the...

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Eden Phillpotts: The universe is...

Eden Phillpotts: The universe is...

The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

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Thomas Hardy: My opinion is...

Thomas Hardy: My opinion is...

My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his...

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Sylvia Plath: There must be...

Sylvia Plath: There must be...

There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.

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Thomas Love Peacock: I never failed...

Thomas Love Peacock: I never failed...

I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.

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George Meredith: Not till the...

George Meredith: Not till the...

Not till the fire is dying in the grate,
Look we for any kinship with the stars.
Oh, wisdom never comes when it...

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George Meredith: Sentimentalists are they...

George Meredith: Sentimentalists are they...

Sentimentalists are they who seek to enjoy without incurring the Immense Debtorship for a thing...

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George Orwell: The books one...

George Orwell: The books one...

The books one reads in childhood, and perhaps most of all the bad and good bad books, create in one's mind a sort of...

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Aldous Huxley: Ye shall know...

Aldous Huxley: Ye shall know...

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

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-- Aldous...

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