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James Allen: Man is made...

James Allen: Man is made...

Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the...

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Andre Malraux: Genius is not...

Andre Malraux: Genius is not...

Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with...

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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.

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Emmuska Orczy: I sometimes wish...

Emmuska Orczy: I sometimes wish...

I sometimes wish you had not so many lofty virtues.... I assure you little sins are far less dangerous and...

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Emmuska Orczy: An apology?...

Emmuska Orczy: An apology?...

An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might...

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Shirley Hazzard: Perhaps if we...

Shirley Hazzard: Perhaps if we...

Perhaps if we lived with less physical beauty we would develop our true natures more.

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Wilfrid Sheed: Mr Michener, as...

Wilfrid Sheed: Mr Michener, as...

Mr Michener, as timeless as a stack of National Geographics, is the ultimate Summer Writer. Just as one goes back to...

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Norman Douglas: Many a man...

Norman Douglas: Many a man...

Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his...

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Lawrence Durrell: Like all young...

Lawrence Durrell: Like all young...

Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.

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Patrick White: Conversation is imperative...

Patrick White: Conversation is imperative...

Conversation is imperative if gaps are to be filled, and old age, it is the last gap but...

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Umberto Eco: I would define...

Umberto Eco: I would define...

I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings,...

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Clive Barker: Be regular and...

Clive Barker: Be regular and...

Be regular and orderly in your life, that you may be violent and original in your work.

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E M Forster: I have only...

E M Forster: I have only...

I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me,...

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E M Forster: One always tends...

E M Forster: One always tends...

One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

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Toni Morrison: As you enter...

Toni Morrison: As you enter...

As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.

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Madeleine L'Engle: Be aware that...

Madeleine L'Engle: Be aware that...

Be aware that rigidity imprisons.

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-- Madeleine L'Engle, (Nov 28...

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Edward Dahlberg: No country has...

Edward Dahlberg: No country has...

No country has suffered so much from the ruins of war while being at peace as the...

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Edward Dahlberg: Look at this...

Edward Dahlberg: Look at this...

Look at this poet William Carlos Williams: he is primitive and native, and his roots are in raw forest and violent...

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Mary Wortley Montagu: It is the...

Mary Wortley Montagu: It is the...

It is the common error of builders and parents to follow some plan they think beautiful (and perhaps is so) without...

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