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Doug Horton: Perfection is perfectly...

Doug Horton: Perfection is perfectly...

Perfection is perfectly simple; fouling things up requires true skill.

Source: In...

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Doug Horton: Good ideas are...

Doug Horton: Good ideas are...

Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Doug Horton: Beauty is variable,...

Doug Horton: Beauty is variable,...

Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Doug Horton: Death is feared...

Doug Horton: Death is feared...

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Israel Zangwill: The way Shaw...

Israel Zangwill: The way Shaw...

The way Shaw believes in himself is very refreshing in these atheistic days when so many people believe in no God at...

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Francis J Grimke: Race prejudice can't...

Francis J Grimke: Race prejudice can't...

Race prejudice can't be talked down, it must be lived down.

Source: c. 1914; in...

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Joyce Carol Oates: Our enemy is...

Joyce Carol Oates: Our enemy is...

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Source:...

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Helen Hunt Jackson: Who waits until...

Helen Hunt Jackson: Who waits until...

Who waits until the wind shall silent keep.
Will never find the ready hour to sow.


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Sir Walter Scott: When a man...

Sir Walter Scott: When a man...

When a man has not a good reason for doing a thing, he has one good reason for letting it...

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Sir Walter Scott: To be always...

Sir Walter Scott: To be always...

To be always intending to live a new life, but never find time to set about it - this is as if a man should put off...

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James Joyce: The artist, like...

James Joyce: The artist, like...

The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible,...

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Edith Wharton: There are two...

Edith Wharton: There are two...

There are two ways of spreading light: To be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

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Richard Wright: The artist must...

Richard Wright: The artist must...

The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.

Source: 12 Million Black...

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Ernest Dimnet: Life is a...

Ernest Dimnet: Life is a...

Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate...

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Tama Janowitz: As a writer,...

Tama Janowitz: As a writer,...

As a writer, I don't think it's my responsibility to make a point. I just write and hope there's someone who'll like...

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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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John Barth: Like an ox-cart...

John Barth: Like an ox-cart...

Like an ox-cart driver in monsoon season or the skipper of a grounded ship, one must sometimes go forward by going...

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Augusto Roa Bastos: The things that...

Augusto Roa Bastos: The things that...

The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he...

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Nancy Mitford: I love children,...

Nancy Mitford: I love children,...

I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.

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Judith Rossner: So often I...

Judith Rossner: So often I...

So often I heard people paying blind obeisance to change as though it had some virtue of its own. Change or we will...

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