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Edith Sitwell: My poems are...

Edith Sitwell: My poems are...

My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life.

Source: Collected Poems.
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Robert Burns: Critics! Those cut-throat...

Robert Burns: Critics! Those cut-throat...

Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Alexander Woollcott: All the things...

Alexander Woollcott: All the things...

All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal, or fattening.

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Anthony Burgess: The trouble began...

Anthony Burgess: The trouble began...

The trouble began with Forster. After him it was considered ungentlemanly to write more than five or six...

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Anthony Burgess: Blockbusting fiction is...

Anthony Burgess: Blockbusting fiction is...

Blockbusting fiction is bought as furniture. Unread, it maintains its value. Read, it looks like money wasted....

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Alexandre Dumas, p?re: Only a man...

Alexandre Dumas, p?re: Only a man...

Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.

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Erich Segal: Love means never...

Erich Segal: Love means never...

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Source: Love Story, 1970.
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Lillian Smith: When you stop...

Lillian Smith: When you stop...

When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to...

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Andre Gide: It is better...

Andre Gide: It is better...

It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.

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Edward Hoagland: Many people have...

Edward Hoagland: Many people have...

Many people have believed that they were Chosen, but none more baldly than the Texans.

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Olive Schreiner: [Finishing schools] are...

Olive Schreiner: [Finishing schools] are...

[Finishing schools] are nicely adapted machines for experimenting on the question, Into how little space a human...

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Alex Haley: I acknowledge immense...

Alex Haley: I acknowledge immense...

I acknowledge immense debt to the griots [tribal poets] of Africa -- where today it is rightly said that when a griot...

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Alan Brien: The blue-rinse warbler...

Alan Brien: The blue-rinse warbler...

The blue-rinse warbler and her horn-rimmed mate are rare and overdue this year.

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Leo Tolstoy: The two most...

Leo Tolstoy: The two most...

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

Source: War and Peace.
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Enid Bagnold: The pleasure of...

Enid Bagnold: The pleasure of...

The pleasure of one's effect on other people still exists in age -- what's called making a hit. But the hit is much...

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Mary Roberts Rinehart: Men deceive themselves;...

Mary Roberts Rinehart: Men deceive themselves;...

Men deceive themselves; they look back on the children who were once themselves, and attempt to reconstruct them. But...

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Marguerite Duras: I see journalists...

Marguerite Duras: I see journalists...

I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is...

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Enid Bagnold: When a man...

Enid Bagnold: When a man...

When a man goes through six years' training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too...

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Joyce Cary: For good and...

Joyce Cary: For good and...

For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous...

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Tama Janowitz: Long after the...

Tama Janowitz: Long after the...

Long after the bomb falls and you and your good deeds are gone, cockroaches will still be here, prowling the streets...

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