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George Moore: Everybody sets out...

George Moore: Everybody sets out...

Everybody sets out to do something, and everybody does something, but no one does what he sets out to...

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George Moore: To be aristocratic...

George Moore: To be aristocratic...

To be aristocratic in Art one must avoid polite society

Source: Enemies of Promise,...

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Katherine Paterson: A great novel...

Katherine Paterson: A great novel...

A great novel is a kind of conversion experience. We come away from it changed.

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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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Edgar Watson Howe: A modest man...

Edgar Watson Howe: A modest man...

A modest man is usually admired -- if people ever hear of him.

Source: In Webster's...

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Joyce Carol Oates: Where we come...

Joyce Carol Oates: Where we come...

Where we come from in America no longer signifies. It's where we go, and what we do when we get there, that tells us...

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Joyce Carol Oates: She ransacked her...

Joyce Carol Oates: She ransacked her...

She ransacked her mind but there was nothing in it.

Source: Them, pt. 1 ch. 15,...

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Robert Graves: Never use the...

Robert Graves: Never use the...

Never use the word 'audience.' The very idea of a public, unless the poet is writing for money, seems wrong to me....

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Robert Graves: Poetry is no...

Robert Graves: Poetry is no...

Poetry is no more a narcotic than a stimulant; it is a universal bittersweet mixture for all possible household...

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Robert Graves: The thundering text,...

Robert Graves: The thundering text,...

The thundering text, the snivelling commentary.

Source: Ogres and Pygmies
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Anita Loos: Show business is...

Anita Loos: Show business is...

Show business is the best possible therapy for remorse.

Source: Kiss Hollywood...

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Joseph Conrad: Any work that...

Joseph Conrad: Any work that...

Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every...

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Elizabeth Gaskell: How easy it...

Elizabeth Gaskell: How easy it...

How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly!

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Katherine Anne Porter: Human life itself...

Katherine Anne Porter: Human life itself...

Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and...

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Mencius: Kindly words do...

Mencius: Kindly words do...

Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.

Source:...

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Arthur Schopenhauer: Politeness is to...

Arthur Schopenhauer: Politeness is to...

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

Source: In The Book of...

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Benedict Spinoza: All excellent things...

Benedict Spinoza: All excellent things...

All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Epicurus: It is not...

Epicurus: It is not...

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help...

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Epicurus: Do not spoil...

Epicurus: Do not spoil...

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the...

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B. J. Gupta: Earlier people used...

B. J. Gupta: Earlier people used...

Earlier people used to switch on TV's after getting bored with their routine work. Now they switch on to routine work...

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