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Margery Allingham: In common with...

Margery Allingham: In common with...

In common with many Christians of the classic type he felt sincerely safer and more at ease when he had given away all...

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Jean Genet: Perhaps all music,...

Jean Genet: Perhaps all music,...

Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay...

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Jean Genet: The fame of...

Jean Genet: The fame of...

The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to...

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Eden Phillpotts: You never know...

Eden Phillpotts: You never know...

You never know what a fool you can be till life gives you the chance.

Source: In...

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George Meredith: The well of...

George Meredith: The well of...

The well of true wit is truth itself.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic Reference...

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Thomas Wolfe: Men will often...

Thomas Wolfe: Men will often...

Men will often say they have 'found themselves' when they have really been worn down into a groove by the brutal and...

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Margaret Mitchell: My pet, the...

Margaret Mitchell: My pet, the...

My pet, the world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own...

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Dinah Mulock Craik: Oh my son's...

Dinah Mulock Craik: Oh my son's...

Oh my son's my son till he gets a wife,
But my daughter's my daughter all her life.


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Alexandra Ripley: Books have become...

Alexandra Ripley: Books have become...

Books have become products like cereal or perfume or deodorant.

Source: In...

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Amy Tan: Who knows where...

Amy Tan: Who knows where...

Who knows where inspiration comes from? Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the...

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Vance Palmer: It is the...

Vance Palmer: It is the...

It is the business of thought to define things, to find the boundaries; thought, indeed, is a ceaseless process of...

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Channing Pollock: The only good...

Channing Pollock: The only good...

The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad...

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Channing Pollock: Each generation produces...

Channing Pollock: Each generation produces...

Each generation produces its squad of moderns with peashooters to attack Gibraltar.

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A A Milne: Almost anyone can...

A A Milne: Almost anyone can...

Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from that state of...

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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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Don Delillo: One connection I...

Don Delillo: One connection I...

One connection I see between novelists and terrorists is that we both attempt to alter...

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Lois McMaster Bujold: Reputation is what...

Lois McMaster Bujold: Reputation is what...

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.

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Anthony Hope: He is very...

Anthony Hope: He is very...

He is very fond of making things which he does not want, and then giving them to people who have no use for...

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John Mortimer: All the flower...

John Mortimer: All the flower...

All the flower children were as alike as a congress of accountants and about as...

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Dorothy Miller Richardson: If there was...

Dorothy Miller Richardson: If there was...

If there was a trick, there must be a trickster.

Source: Pilgrimage, Vol. 11, Ch....

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