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Jack Kerouac: No man should...

Jack Kerouac: No man should...

No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding...

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James Agee: We are talking...

James Agee: We are talking...

We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the time that I lived there so successfully...

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Toni Morrison: If there's a...

Toni Morrison: If there's a...

If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write...

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Anne Rice: . . ....

Anne Rice: . . ....

. . . as they die, the ones we love, we lose our witnesses, our watchers, those who know and understand the tiny...

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Barbara Cartland: Of course they...

Barbara Cartland: Of course they...

Of course they have, or I wouldn't be sitting here talking to someone like you.

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Charles Reade: Sow an act...

Charles Reade: Sow an act...

Sow an act and you reap a habit.
Sow a habit and you reap a character.
Sow a character and you reap a...

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Jean Ingelow: Cusha! Cusha! Cusha!'...

Jean Ingelow: Cusha! Cusha! Cusha!'...

Cusha! Cusha! Cusha!' calling
Ere the early dews were falling.


Source: The High...

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Jean Ingelow: It is not...

Jean Ingelow: It is not...

It is not reason which makes faith hard, but life.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Wilfrid Sheed: Every writer is...

Wilfrid Sheed: Every writer is...

Every writer is a writer of the generation before.

Source: On his parents; in NY...

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Wilfrid Sheed: Mr Michener, as...

Wilfrid Sheed: Mr Michener, as...

Mr Michener, as timeless as a stack of National Geographics, is the ultimate Summer Writer. Just as one goes back to...

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William Gilmore Simms: He who would...

William Gilmore Simms: He who would...

He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of...

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Angus Wilson: The opportunities for...

Angus Wilson: The opportunities for...

The opportunities for heroism are limited in this kind of world: the most people can do is sometimes not to be as weak...

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Lillian Smith: Faith and doubt...

Lillian Smith: Faith and doubt...

Faith and doubt both are needed -- not as antagonists, but working side by side -- to take us around the unknown...

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Edward Hoagland: In order to...

Edward Hoagland: In order to...

In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semihuman. The point of it is to open...

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Alex Haley: My fondest hope...

Alex Haley: My fondest hope...

My fondest hope is that Roots may start black, white, brown, red, yellow people digging back for their own roots. ...

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Alex Haley: I look...

Alex Haley: I look...

I look at my books the way parents look at their children. The fact that one becomes more successful than the others...

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He has a...

He has a...

He has a capacity for enjoyment so vast that he gives away great chunks to those about him, and never even misses...

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Excuse me, everybody,...

Excuse me, everybody,...

Excuse me, everybody, I have to go to the bathroom. I really have to telephone, but I'm too embarrassed to say...

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Because he spills...

Because he spills...

Because he spills his seed on the ground.

Source: On naming her canary 'Onan';...

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Oh, don't worry...

Oh, don't worry...

Oh, don't worry about Alan . . . Alan will always land on somebody's feet.

Source:...

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