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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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Sholem Asch: Heritage is Scriptures...

Sholem Asch: Heritage is Scriptures...

Heritage is Scriptures . . . which have become absorbed into our blood.

Source:...

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Herman Wouk: Illusion is an...

Herman Wouk: Illusion is an...

Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality.

Source: War and...

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Betty Smith: I wrote about...

Betty Smith: I wrote about...

I wrote about people who liked, fake fireplaces in their parlor, who thought a brass horse with a clock embedded in...

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Emmuska Orczy: To love, for...

Emmuska Orczy: To love, for...

To love, for us men, is to clasp one woman with our arms, feeling that she lives and breathes just as we do, suffers...

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Shirley Hazzard: [C]hronological prestige is...

Shirley Hazzard: [C]hronological prestige is...

[C]hronological prestige is tenacious: once attained, it can't be shed; it increased moment by moment, day by day,...

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Nella Larsen: Why couldn't she...

Nella Larsen: Why couldn't she...

Why couldn't she have two lives, or why couldn't she be satisfied in one place?

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Tom Clancy: Man is a...

Tom Clancy: Man is a...

Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which believe the idea that things cannot be...

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Wilfrid Sheed: I picked up...

Wilfrid Sheed: I picked up...

I picked up the writing on the very day he died. It was the only consolation I could find.

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Mordecai Richler: And furthermore did...

Mordecai Richler: And furthermore did...

And furthermore did you know that behind the discovery of America there was a Jewish...

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John Fowles: We all write...

John Fowles: We all write...

We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.

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Angus Wilson: The opportunities for...

Angus Wilson: The opportunities for...

The opportunities for heroism are limited in this kind of world: the most people can do is sometimes not to be as weak...

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E M Forster: Curiosity is one...

E M Forster: Curiosity is one...

Curiosity is one of the lowest of the human faculties. You will have noticed in daily life that when people are...

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Robert Graves: One gets to...

Robert Graves: One gets to...

One gets to the heart of the matter by a series of experiences in the same pattern, but in different...

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C P Snow: I believe the...

C P Snow: I believe the...

I believe the world is increasingly in danger of becoming split into groups which cannot communicate with each other,...

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Carson McCullers: The writer by...

Carson McCullers: The writer by...

The writer by nature of his profession is a dreamer and a conscious dreamer. He must imagine, and imagination takes...

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Anne Tyler: I've always thought...

Anne Tyler: I've always thought...

I've always thought a hotel ought to offer optional small animals. . . . I mean a cat to sleep on your bed at night,...

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Henri Bergson: Genius is that...

Henri Bergson: Genius is that...

Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.

Source: In The New...

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Simone Weil: A science which...

Simone Weil: A science which...

A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.

Source: Gravity and...

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