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Eden Phillpotts: His father's sister...

Eden Phillpotts: His father's sister...

His father's sister had bats in the belfry and was put away.

Source: My First...

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Sylvia Plath: Too much attention...

Sylvia Plath: Too much attention...

Too much attention to health is a hindrance to learning, to invention, and to studies of any kind, for we are always...

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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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John Sterling: Emotion turning back...

John Sterling: Emotion turning back...

Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of...

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Boris Pasternak: Man is born...

Boris Pasternak: Man is born...

Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Source: Doctor Zhivago
-- Boris...

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Stephen Potter: Donsmanship . ....

Stephen Potter: Donsmanship . ....

Donsmanship . . . 'the art of criticizing without actually listening'.

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George Ade: Do unto yourself...

George Ade: Do unto yourself...

Do unto yourself as your neighbors do unto themselves and look pleasant.

Source: In...

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Dorothy Gilman: The best things...

Dorothy Gilman: The best things...

The best things arrive on time.

Source: A New Kind of Country, 1978.
-- Dorothy...

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William Faulkner: If a writer...

William Faulkner: If a writer...

If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the Ode on a Grecian Urn is worth any number of old...

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James Michener: Character consists of...

James Michener: Character consists of...

Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

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Frank Norris: [The Muse of...

Frank Norris: [The Muse of...

[The Muse of our Fiction of the future] will lead you - if you are humble and honest with her - straight into a World...

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Laurence Sterne: Nothing is so...

Laurence Sterne: Nothing is so...

Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.

Source: Tristram...

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Edna Ferber: Only amateurs say...

Edna Ferber: Only amateurs say...

Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination...

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Peter Abrahams: Many have changed...

Peter Abrahams: Many have changed...

Many have changed so much that they have lost the magic of the dream that carried them on that own...

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Elie Wiesel: Most people think...

Elie Wiesel: Most people think...

Most people think that shadows follow, precede, or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround...

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Leo Rosten: The writer wants...

Leo Rosten: The writer wants...

The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved. And that perhaps,...

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Emily Bronte: A good heart...

Emily Bronte: A good heart...

A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad. . . and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than...

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Toni Morrison: Bryn Mawr had...

Toni Morrison: Bryn Mawr had...

Bryn Mawr had done what a four-year dose of liberal education was designed to do: unfit her for eighty per cent of...

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Jean Rhys: Age seldom arrives...

Jean Rhys: Age seldom arrives...

Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks.

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Alexandra Ripley: We're not home-and-hearth...

Alexandra Ripley: We're not home-and-hearth...

We're not home-and-hearth people. We're the adventurers, the buccaneers, the blockade runners. Without challenge,...

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