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G K Chesterton: You shouldn't take...

G K Chesterton: You shouldn't take...

You shouldn't take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.

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Charles Reade: A wife is...

Charles Reade: A wife is...

A wife is essential to great longevity; she is the receptacle of half a man's cares, and two-thirds of his...

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Harry Crews: God love the...

Harry Crews: God love the...

God love the car. It has shown the naked heart that lives in all of us. Man invented the car but the car -- out of...

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William Gilmore Simms: The true law...

William Gilmore Simms: The true law...

The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is...

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Sloan Wilson: It is impossible...

Sloan Wilson: It is impossible...

It is impossible to treat a child too well. Children are spoiled by being ignored too much or by harshness, not by...

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Umberto Eco: The real hero...

Umberto Eco: The real hero...

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody...

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Richard Bach: Your friends will...

Richard Bach: Your friends will...

Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand...

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Remy de Gourmont: In order to...

Remy de Gourmont: In order to...

In order to understand life it is not only necessary not to be indifferent to men, but not to be indifferent to...

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Gilbert Ryle: To explode a...

Gilbert Ryle: To explode a...

To explode a myth is accordingly not to deny the facts but to re-allocate them.

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Djuna Barnes: Dreams have only...

Djuna Barnes: Dreams have only...

Dreams have only the pigmentation of fact.

Source: Doctor, in Nightwood, ch. 5,...

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Leopold Senghor: All change, all...

Leopold Senghor: All change, all...

All change, all production and generation are effected through the word.

Source: In...

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Winston Churchill: Short words are...

Winston Churchill: Short words are...

Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.

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Jean Toomer: People mistake their...

Jean Toomer: People mistake their...

People mistake their limitations for high standards.

Source: In And I Quote, by...

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Rachel Field: I've seen public...

Rachel Field: I've seen public...

I've seen public opinion shift like the wind and put out the very fire it lighted.

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Max Frisch: It's precisely the...

Max Frisch: It's precisely the...

It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true...

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Djuna Barnes: After all, it...

Djuna Barnes: After all, it...

After all, it is not where one washes one's neck that counts but where one moistens one's...

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Djuna Barnes: Life, the permission...

Djuna Barnes: Life, the permission...

Life, the permission to know death.

Source: Nightwood/ 1937
-- Djuna Barnes,...

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Frank Norris: No art that...

Frank Norris: No art that...

No art that is not in the end understood by the People can live or ever did live a single...

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Herman Wouk: Income tax returns:...

Herman Wouk: Income tax returns:...

Income tax returns: the most imaginative fiction written today.

Source: In 1,911...

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Herman Wouk: I felt there's...

Herman Wouk: I felt there's...

I felt there's a wealth in Jewish tradition, a great inheritance. I'd be a jerk not to take advantage of...

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