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Toni Morrison: The ability of...

Toni Morrison: The ability of...

The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the...

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Tillie Olsen: I know that...

Tillie Olsen: I know that...

I know that I haven't powers enough to divide myself into one who earns and one who...

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Eleanor H Porter: I can't see...

Eleanor H Porter: I can't see...

I can't see anythin, ter be glad about -- gettin, a pair of crutches when you wanted a doll! . . .
Goosey! Why,...

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Daisy Ashford: My own idear...

Daisy Ashford: My own idear...

My own idear is that these things are as piffle before the wind.

Source: The Earl...

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Jane Austen: A woman especially,...

Jane Austen: A woman especially,...

A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing any thing, should conceal it as well as she...

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Channing Pollock: A critic is...

Channing Pollock: A critic is...

A critic is a legless man who teaches running.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Ernest Bramah: One learns to...

Ernest Bramah: One learns to...

One learns to itch where one can scratch.

Source: In Correct Quotes for DOS,...

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Edmund Clerihew Bentley: The Art of...

Edmund Clerihew Bentley: The Art of...

The Art of Biography
Is different from Geography.
Geography is about Maps,
But Biography is about...

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Edmund Clerihew Bentley: John Stuart Mill<br>By...

Edmund Clerihew Bentley: John Stuart Mill
By...

John Stuart Mill
By a mighty effort of will
Overcame his natural bonhomie
And wrote 'Principles of Political...

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Frederick Douglass: Truth is proper...

Frederick Douglass: Truth is proper...

Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.

Source: In Famous...

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P D James: His sleep was...

P D James: His sleep was...

His sleep was a sensuous gluttony of oblivion.

Source: Death of an Expert Witness,...

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Gustave Flaubert: Judge the goodness...

Gustave Flaubert: Judge the goodness...

Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. . . I believe the greatest characteristic...

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Edward Dahlberg: Ambition is a...

Edward Dahlberg: Ambition is a...

Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is...

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Anthony Burgess: Laugh and the...

Anthony Burgess: Laugh and the...

Laugh and the world laughs with you; snore and you sleep alone.

Source: Inside Mr....

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Anthony Burgess: The unconscious mind...

Anthony Burgess: The unconscious mind...

The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon.

Source: In...

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Erich Segal: True love comes...

Erich Segal: True love comes...

True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears...

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Erich Segal: Love means never...

Erich Segal: Love means never...

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Source: Love Story, 1970.
-- Erich...

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Booth Tarkington: When I get...

Booth Tarkington: When I get...

When I get to be a man! Being human, though boys, they considered their present estate too commonplace to be dwelt...

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J G Ballard: A car crash...

J G Ballard: A car crash...

A car crash harnesses elements of eroticism, aggression, desire, speed, drama, kinaesthetic factors, the stylizing of...

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John Steinbeck: The discipline of...

John Steinbeck: The discipline of...

The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.

Source:...

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