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James Allen: To begin to...

James Allen: To begin to...

To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the...

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Saul Bellow: A great deal...

Saul Bellow: A great deal...

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is...

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Douglas Coupland: New York is...

Douglas Coupland: New York is...

New York is a theme park for people with IQs over 108.

Source: In Collection of...

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Douglas Coupland: Make your goals...

Douglas Coupland: Make your goals...

Make your goals big and broad enough so that they never become answered prayers and boomerang to curse...

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E B White: There's no limit...

E B White: There's no limit...

There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to...

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E B White: Be obscure clearly....

E B White: Be obscure clearly....

Be obscure clearly.

Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed. Keith Mohler,...

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E B White: A poet's pleasure...

E B White: A poet's pleasure...

A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from...

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George Ade: The time to...

George Ade: The time to...

The time to enjoy a European tour is about three weeks after you unpack.

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Ernest Hemingway: But man is...

Ernest Hemingway: But man is...

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

Source: In...

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P D James: A man who...

P D James: A man who...

A man who lives with nature is used to violence and is companionable with death. There is more violence in an English...

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Madeleine L'Engle: It's a good...

Madeleine L'Engle: It's a good...

It's a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what is rock...

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Margaret Halsey: Some persons talk...

Margaret Halsey: Some persons talk...

Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence.

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George Eliot: There is a...

George Eliot: There is a...

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our...

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Ivy Compton-Burnett: People who have...

Ivy Compton-Burnett: People who have...

People who have power respond simply. They have no minds but their own.

Source: In...

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Susan Warner: Many a bit...

Susan Warner: Many a bit...

Many a bit we passed in our ignorance, in the days when we could see no metal but what glittered on the surface . ....

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J G Ballard: The American Dream...

J G Ballard: The American Dream...

The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its...

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John Fowles: The supposed great...

John Fowles: The supposed great...

The supposed great misery of our century is the lack of time.

Source: The French...

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George Eliot: Our consciousness rarely...

George Eliot: Our consciousness rarely...

Our consciousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us any more than without us: there have been many...

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Theodore Dreiser: Let no one...

Theodore Dreiser: Let no one...

Let no one underestimate the need of pity. We live in a stony universe whose hard, brilliant forces rage...

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Edward Hoagland: True solitude is...

Edward Hoagland: True solitude is...

True solitude is a din of birdsong, seething leaves, whirling colors, or a clamor of tracks in the...

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