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Friedrich Nietzsche: Talking much about...

Friedrich Nietzsche: Talking much about...

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

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Mark Twain: When you cannot...

Mark Twain: When you cannot...

When you cannot get a compliment in any other way pay yourself one.

Source: In The...

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Edna O'Brien: Writers live in...

Edna O'Brien: Writers live in...

Writers live in the mind and in hotels of the soul.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Enid Bagnold: Judges don't age....

Enid Bagnold: Judges don't age....

Judges don't age. Time decorates them.

Source: Judge, in The Chalk Garden, act...

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Rose Tremain: There is something...

Rose Tremain: There is something...

There is something about the unexpected that moves us. As if the whole of existence is paid for in some way, except...

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John Mortimer: Attack the medical...

John Mortimer: Attack the medical...

Attack the medical evidence. Remember the jury's full of rheumatism and arthritis and shocking gastric troubles. They...

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Carlos Fuentes: By its very...

Carlos Fuentes: By its very...

By its very nature, the novel indicates that we are becoming. There is no final solution. There is no last...

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Eden Phillpotts: The universe is...

Eden Phillpotts: The universe is...

The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

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Ben Hecht: A man who...

Ben Hecht: A man who...

A man who shows me his wealth is like a begger who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for alms -- the rich...

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James Agee: As a whole...

James Agee: As a whole...

As a whole part of psychological education it needs to be remembered that a neurosis can be valuable; also that...

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George Meredith: Passions spin the...

George Meredith: Passions spin the...

Passions spin the plot:
We are betrayed by what is false within.


Source: Modern...

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George Meredith: Ah, what a...

George Meredith: Ah, what a...

Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul
When hot for certainties in this our life!


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Sholem Asch: I love the...

Sholem Asch: I love the...

I love the place; the magnificent books; I require books as I require air.

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George MacDonald: The principal part...

George MacDonald: The principal part...

The principal part of faith is patience.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Joyce Cary: Remember I'm an...

Joyce Cary: Remember I'm an...

Remember I'm an artist. And you know what that means in a court of law. Next worst to an...

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Theodore Dreiser: To the untraveled,...

Theodore Dreiser: To the untraveled,...

To the untraveled, territory other than their own familiar heath is invariably fascinating. Next to love it is the one...

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Lillian Smith: Education is a...

Lillian Smith: Education is a...

Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with...

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Alan Brien: Violence is the...

Alan Brien: Violence is the...

Violence is the repartee of the illiterate.

Source: In Punch, 7 Feb 1973.
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Dorothy Miller Richardson: There; how d'ye...

Dorothy Miller Richardson: There; how d'ye...

There; how d'ye like that, eh? A liberal education in twelve volumes, with an index.

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Susan Warner: Many a bit...

Susan Warner: Many a bit...

Many a bit we passed in our ignorance, in the days when we could see no metal but what glittered on the surface . ....

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