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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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Emmuska Orczy: An apology?...

Emmuska Orczy: An apology?...

An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might...

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Nella Larsen: Lies, injustice, and...

Nella Larsen: Lies, injustice, and...

Lies, injustice, and hypocrisy are a part of every ordinary community. Most people achieve a sort of protective...

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Charles Morgan: If Moses had...

Charles Morgan: If Moses had...

If Moses had gone to Harvard Law School and spent three years working on the Hill, he would have written The Ten...

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Robert Ludlum: The theater man...

Robert Ludlum: The theater man...

The theater man knows that he must involve the audience. He understands structure more than anyone else -- the logical...

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Theodore Dreiser: Nothing is proved,...

Theodore Dreiser: Nothing is proved,...

Nothing is proved, all is permitted.

Source: The Titan, 1914.
-- Theodore...

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Gloria Naylor: Sometimes being a...

Gloria Naylor: Sometimes being a...

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow...

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Marguerite Yourcenar: A young musician...

Marguerite Yourcenar: A young musician...

A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the other hand, sometimes...

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Alan Brien: The country is...

Alan Brien: The country is...

The country is laid out in a haphazard, sloppy fashion, offensive to the tidy, organized...

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Edward Westcott: The only man...

Edward Westcott: The only man...

The only man who can change his mind is a man that's got one.

Source: In Quote Disk...

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Charles W Chesnutt: Impossibilities are merely...

Charles W Chesnutt: Impossibilities are merely...

Impossibilities are merely things of which we have not learned, or which we do not wish to...

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John Mortimer: Farce is tragedy...

John Mortimer: Farce is tragedy...

Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.

Source: Times ...

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John Mortimer: I refuse to...

John Mortimer: I refuse to...

I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years...

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Thomas Hardy: My opinion is...

Thomas Hardy: My opinion is...

My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his...

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Anne Bronte: I would not...

Anne Bronte: I would not...

I would not send a poor girl into the world, . . . ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and...

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Anne Bronte: There is always...

Anne Bronte: There is always...

There is always a but in this imperfect world.

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall,...

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Boris Pasternak: The whole of...

Boris Pasternak: The whole of...

The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.

Source: In...

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George Meredith: Kissing don't last:...

George Meredith: Kissing don't last:...

Kissing don't last: cookery do!

Source: Mrs. Berry, in The Ordeal of Richard...

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Robert Ludlum: . . ....

Robert Ludlum: . . ....

. . . If you lose their interest, your're closing Saturday night.

Source: Ludlum on...

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Man only likes...

Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Man only likes...

Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.

Source: Notes...

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