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Eleanor H Porter: What men and...

Eleanor H Porter: What men and...

What men and women need is encouragement. . . . Instead of always harping on a man's faults, tell him of his virtues....

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Barbara Cartland: As long as...

Barbara Cartland: As long as...

As long as the plots keep arriving from outer space, I'll go on with my virgins.

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Daisy Ashford: I am parshial...

Daisy Ashford: I am parshial...

I am parshial [sic] to ladies if they are nice. I suppose it is my nature. I am not quite a gentleman but you would...

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Augusto Roa Bastos: Man is an...

Augusto Roa Bastos: Man is an...

Man is an idiot. He doesn't know how to do anything without copying, without imitating, without plagiarizing, without...

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Charles Reade: Make 'em laugh;...

Charles Reade: Make 'em laugh;...

Make 'em laugh; make 'em cry; make 'em wait.

Source: Advice to an aspiring writer;...

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Nancy Mitford: An aristocracy in...

Nancy Mitford: An aristocracy in...

An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off: it may run about in a lively way, but in...

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Johanna Spyri: Oh, I wish...

Johanna Spyri: Oh, I wish...

Oh, I wish that God had not given me what I prayed for! It was not so good as I thought.

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Wilfrid Sheed: One reason the...

Wilfrid Sheed: One reason the...

One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from...

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Wilfrid Sheed: The American male...

Wilfrid Sheed: The American male...

The American male doesn't mature until he has exhausted all other possibilities.

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Don Delillo: If I were...

Don Delillo: If I were...

If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a...

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Harry Crews: God love the...

Harry Crews: God love the...

God love the car. It has shown the naked heart that lives in all of us. Man invented the car but the car -- out of...

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Patrick White: Conversation is imperative...

Patrick White: Conversation is imperative...

Conversation is imperative if gaps are to be filled, and old age, it is the last gap but...

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John Fowles: We all write...

John Fowles: We all write...

We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.

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Lawana Blackwell: Age is no...

Lawana Blackwell: Age is no...

Age is no guarantee of maturity.

Source: In Collection of 10,000 Inspirational...

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Lawana Blackwell: It isn't kind...

Lawana Blackwell: It isn't kind...

It isn't kind to cultivate a friendship just so one will have an audience.

Source:...

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Edward Westcott: If I've done...

Edward Westcott: If I've done...

If I've done anything I'm sorry for, I'm willing to be forgiven.

Source: In Rand...

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Erich Segal: This isn't a...

Erich Segal: This isn't a...

This isn't a watercolor, it's a mural.

Source: On The Class, the longest of his...

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Andre Gide: The work of...

Andre Gide: The work of...

The work of art is the exaggeration of an idea.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Erica Jong: Surviving meant being...

Erica Jong: Surviving meant being...

Surviving meant being born over and over.

Source:
-- Erica Jong, (Mar 26...

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Erica Jong: I went for...

Erica Jong: I went for...

I went for years not finishing anything. Because, of course, when you finish something you can be judged. . . . I had...

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