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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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Mark Twain: What is there...

Mark Twain: What is there...

What is there in Rome for me to see that others have not seen before me? What is there for me to touch that others...

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Horace Walpole: Mystery is the...

Horace Walpole: Mystery is the...

Mystery is the wisdom of blockheads.

Source: In Instant Quotation Dictionary, by...

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Leo Tolstoy: True science investigates...

Leo Tolstoy: True science investigates...

True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time...

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William H Gass: The speeding reader...

William H Gass: The speeding reader...

The speeding reader guts a book the way the skillful clean fish. The gills are gone, the tail, the scales, the fins;...

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Rose Tremain: Life should be...

Rose Tremain: Life should be...

Life should be embraced like a lover.

Source: In ...As One Mad With Wine, by Elyse...

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Mary Roberts Rinehart: Life is a...

Mary Roberts Rinehart: Life is a...

Life is a little work, a little sleep, a little love and it is all over.

Source: In...

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Enid Bagnold: As for death...

Enid Bagnold: As for death...

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

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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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James Michener: Character consists of...

James Michener: Character consists of...

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

Source:...

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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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