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Knut Hamsun: In old age...

Knut Hamsun: In old age...

In old age . . . we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have...

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Margaret Mitchell: I'm tired of...

Margaret Mitchell: I'm tired of...

I'm tired of saying, How wonderful you are! to fool men who haven't got one-half the sense I've got, and I'm tired of...

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Nadine Gordimer: The creative act...

Nadine Gordimer: The creative act...

The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read...

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Alexandra Ripley: Should-haves solve nothing....

Alexandra Ripley: Should-haves solve nothing....

Should-haves solve nothing. It's the next thing to happen that needs thinking about.

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Amy Tan: In America nobody...

Amy Tan: In America nobody...

In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you.

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Vance Palmer: It is the...

Vance Palmer: It is the...

It is the business of thought to define things, to find the boundaries; thought, indeed, is a ceaseless process of...

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Anne Rice: . . ....

Anne Rice: . . ....

. . . as they die, the ones we love, we lose our witnesses, our watchers, those who know and understand the tiny...

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Marguerite Yourcenar: A young musician...

Marguerite Yourcenar: A young musician...

A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the other hand, sometimes...

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Olive Schreiner: The troubles of...

Olive Schreiner: The troubles of...

The troubles of the young are soon over; they leave no external mark. If you wound the tree in its youth the bark will...

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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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P G Wodehouse: I just sit...

P G Wodehouse: I just sit...

I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit.

Source: In Collier's, 31 Aug 1956;...

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P G Wodehouse: Success comes to...

P G Wodehouse: Success comes to...

Success comes to a writer, as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and...

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P G Wodehouse: It was my...

P G Wodehouse: It was my...

It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical...

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Christopher Morley: My theology, briefly,...

Christopher Morley: My theology, briefly,...

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.

Source:...

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Douglas Coupland: Big companies are...

Douglas Coupland: Big companies are...

Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like...

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Publilius Syrus: It is a...

Publilius Syrus: It is a...

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Publilius Syrus: In quarreling the...

Publilius Syrus: In quarreling the...

In quarreling the truth is always lost.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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P D James: It was not...

P D James: It was not...

It was not . . . that she was unaware of the frayed and ragged edges of life. She would merely iron them out with a...

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Dorothy Gilman: If something anticipated...

Dorothy Gilman: If something anticipated...

If something anticipated arrives too late it finds us numb, wrung out from waiting, and we feel -- nothing at...

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Herman Melville: For whatever is...

Herman Melville: For whatever is...

For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.

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