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S J Perelman: There were times,...

S J Perelman: There were times,...

There were times, when I drove along the Sunset Strip and looked at those buildings or when I watched the fashionable...

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E B White: A candidate could...

E B White: A candidate could...

A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a...

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George Ade: Anybody can win,...

George Ade: Anybody can win,...

Anybody can win, unless there happens to be a second entry.

Source: In The World's...

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Arnold Bennett: It is easier...

Arnold Bennett: It is easier...

It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.

Source:...

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Gustave Flaubert: You must not...

Gustave Flaubert: You must not...

You must not think that feeling is everything. . . . Art is nothing without form.

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Augusto Roa Bastos: Facts can't be...

Augusto Roa Bastos: Facts can't be...

Facts can't be recounted; much less twice over, and far less still by different persons. I've already drummed that...

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Nancy Mitford: I have only...

Nancy Mitford: I have only...

I have only read one book in my life and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read...

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Naomi Mitchison: It was all...

Naomi Mitchison: It was all...

It was all coming out from somewhere, and I just had the job of writing it down. I was, however, determined that the...

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Betty Smith: There's a tree...

Betty Smith: There's a tree...

There's a tree that grows in Brooklyn. Some people call it the Tree of Heaven. No matter where its seed falls, it...

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Johanna Spyri: You mischievous child!...

Johanna Spyri: You mischievous child!...

You mischievous child! she cried, in great excitement. What are you thinking of? Why have you taken everything off?...

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Don Delillo: If I were...

Don Delillo: If I were...

If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a...

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Don Delillo: Men with secrets...

Don Delillo: Men with secrets...

Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they need...

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Lawrence Durrell: Music was invented...

Lawrence Durrell: Music was invented...

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Source: Clea, in Clea, ch. 1, sct....

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Harry Crews: Teaching, real teaching,...

Harry Crews: Teaching, real teaching,...

Teaching, real teaching, is -- or ought to be -- a messy business.

Source: Personal...

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Harry Crews: What the artist...

Harry Crews: What the artist...

What the artist owes the world is his work; not a model for living.

Source:...

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Patrick White: All my novels...

Patrick White: All my novels...

All my novels are an accumulation of detail. I'm a bit of a bower-bird.

Source:...

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Ronald Firbank: `O, help me...

Ronald Firbank: `O, help me...

`O, help me heaven,' she prayed, `to be decorative and to do right.'

Source: Flower...

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Martin Amis: Every writer hopes...

Martin Amis: Every writer hopes...

Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be...

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Clive Barker: Nothing ever begins....

Clive Barker: Nothing ever begins....

Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any other story...

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Robert Ludlum: The Road to...

Robert Ludlum: The Road to...

The Road to Gandolfo is one of those rare if insance accidents that can happen to a writer perhaps once or twice in...

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