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Edward Hoagland: Men often compete...

Edward Hoagland: Men often compete...

Men often compete with one another until the day they die; comradeship consists of rubbing shoulders jocularly with a...

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Sir Walter Besant: Youth is a...

Sir Walter Besant: Youth is a...

Youth is a wonderful thing what a crime to waste it on children.

Source: In...

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Gay Talese: The reporter ....

Gay Talese: The reporter ....

The reporter . . . wrote with the hope that he would get a by-line in the Times, a testimony to his being alive on...

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Alan Brien: The majority of...

Alan Brien: The majority of...

The majority of them give the impression of being men who have been drafted into the job during a period of martial...

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Tama Janowitz: I don't want...

Tama Janowitz: I don't want...

I don't want my novel to be like Madame Bovary, finely crafted with the life edited out of it. I want my novel to be...

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Eleanor H Porter: Hold up to...

Eleanor H Porter: Hold up to...

Hold up to him his better self, his real self that can dare and do and win out . . . People radiate what is in their...

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Barbara Cartland: I'll keep going...

Barbara Cartland: I'll keep going...

I'll keep going till my face falls off.

Source: The Observer, 'Sayings of the...

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Daisy Ashford: My life will...

Daisy Ashford: My life will...

My life will be sour grapes and ashes without you.

Source: The Young Visiters,...

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Augusto Roa Bastos: What happens is...

Augusto Roa Bastos: What happens is...

What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind...

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Michael Crichton: Scientific power is...

Michael Crichton: Scientific power is...

Scientific power is like inherited wealth; attained without discipline. You read about what others have done, and you...

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Sloan Wilson: It's not a...

Sloan Wilson: It's not a...

It's not a question of who's going to throw the first stone; it's a question of who's going to start building with...

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Martin Amis: Weapons are like...

Martin Amis: Weapons are like...

Weapons are like money; no one knows the meaning of enough.

Source: Einstein's...

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Clive Barker: Nothing is fixed....

Clive Barker: Nothing is fixed....

Nothing is fixed. In and out the shuttle goes, fact and fiction, mind and matter, woven into patterns that may have...

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Margaret Truman: He was prouder...

Margaret Truman: He was prouder...

He was prouder still to be a member of that even more restricted group, Uncle Sam Rayburn's Board of Education the...

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Lawrence Durrell: History is an...

Lawrence Durrell: History is an...

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.

Source: The Listener,...

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Robert Ludlum: The typewriter is...

Robert Ludlum: The typewriter is...

The typewriter is dusted and pencils are sharpened, doors are closed and heady music is played to drown out the sounds...

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Andre Malraux: Be careful, --...

Andre Malraux: Be careful, --...

Be careful, -- with quotations you can damn anything.

Source: Anti-censorship...

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Saul Bellow: Everybody needs his...

Saul Bellow: Everybody needs his...

Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.

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Edward Westcott: I often had...

Edward Westcott: I often had...

I often had to notice that a man'll sometimes do the foolishist thing or the meanest thing in his hull life after he's...

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Edward Westcott: Do unto the...

Edward Westcott: Do unto the...

Do unto the other feller the way he'd like to do unto you, and do it fast.

Source:...

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