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Vicki Baum: Fame always brings...

Vicki Baum: Fame always brings...

Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

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Kathleen Norris: Just the knowledge...

Kathleen Norris: Just the knowledge...

Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day...

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Kathleen Norris: Over and over...

Kathleen Norris: Over and over...

Over and over again mediocrity is promoted because real worth isn't to be found.

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Kathleen Norris: In spite of...

Kathleen Norris: In spite of...

In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Faith Baldwin: Men's private self-worlds...

Faith Baldwin: Men's private self-worlds...

Men's private self-worlds are rather like our geographical world's seasons, storm, and sun, deserts, oases, mountains...

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Anne Rice: To write something,...

Anne Rice: To write something,...

To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.

Source: In The...

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Grace Metalious: Didn't you ever...

Grace Metalious: Didn't you ever...

Didn't you ever notice how it's always people who wish they had somethin' or had done somethin' that hate the...

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Madeleine L'Engle: To be born...

Madeleine L'Engle: To be born...

To be born is to start the journey towards death.

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-- Madeleine L'Engle,...

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John Steinbeck: The profession of...

John Steinbeck: The profession of...

The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.

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John Fowles: Content is a...

John Fowles: Content is a...

Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man.

Source: The...

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Marquis de Sade: The ultimate triumph...

Marquis de Sade: The ultimate triumph...

The ultimate triumph of philosophy would be to cast light upon the mysterious ways in which Providence moves to...

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Gore Vidal: It is the...

Gore Vidal: It is the...

It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise,...

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Gore Vidal: In America, the...

Gore Vidal: In America, the...

In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you are a great writer, you must say that...

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Gloria Naylor: The last time...

Gloria Naylor: The last time...

The last time you're doing something -- knowing you're doing it for the last -- makes it even more alive than the...

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Edward Hoagland: There often seems...

Edward Hoagland: There often seems...

There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness...

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Olive Schreiner: How hard it...

Olive Schreiner: How hard it...

How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on...

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Jean Paul: Memory is the...

Jean Paul: Memory is the...

Memory is the only paradise from which we cannot be driven.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Christopher Morley: If you have...

Christopher Morley: If you have...

If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isn't so.

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Douglas Coupland: Most of us...

Douglas Coupland: Most of us...

Most of us have only two or three genuinely interesting moments in our lives; the rest is...

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S J Perelman: Under a forehead...

S J Perelman: Under a forehead...

Under a forehead roughly comparable to that of Javanese and Piltdown man are visible a pair of tiny pig eyes, lit up...

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