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Honore de Balzac: The heart of...

Honore de Balzac: The heart of...

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find...

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Honore de Balzac: Hatred is the...

Honore de Balzac: Hatred is the...

Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base...

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Honore de Balzac: Nothing is a...

Honore de Balzac: Nothing is a...

Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with...

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Annie Dillard: You can't test...

Annie Dillard: You can't test...

You can't test courage cautiously.

Source: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, ch. 6,...

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Gertrude Stein: Nature is commonplace....

Gertrude Stein: Nature is commonplace....

Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.

Source: In My Autobiography,...

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Honore de Balzac: Solitude is fine,...

Honore de Balzac: Solitude is fine,...

Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.

Source:...

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Louisa May Alcott: A little kingdom...

Louisa May Alcott: A little kingdom...

A little kingdom I possess,
Where thoughts and feelings dwell;
And very hard the task I find
Of governing it...

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Erica Jong: Fame means millions...

Erica Jong: Fame means millions...

Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.

Source:
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Erica Jong: I went for...

Erica Jong: I went for...

I went for years not finishing anything. Because, of course, when you finish something you can be judged. . . . I had...

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Mark Twain: After a few...

Mark Twain: After a few...

After a few months' acquaintance with European coffee, one's mind weakens, and his faith with it, and he begins to...

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Mark Twain: Conscience takes up...

Mark Twain: Conscience takes up...

Conscience takes up more room than all the rest of a person's insides.

Source:...

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Mark Twain: He does not...

Mark Twain: He does not...

He does not care for flowers. Calls them rubbish, and cannot tell one from another, and thinks it is superior to feel...

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Mark Twain: I was young...

Mark Twain: I was young...

I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher.

Source: In 1,911 Best...

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Mark Twain: If you have...

Mark Twain: If you have...

If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Mark Twain: In the South,...

Mark Twain: In the South,...

In the South, the war is what A.D. is elsewhere: they date from it.

Source: Life on...

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Mark Twain: It is a...

Mark Twain: It is a...

It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would...

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S J Perelman: A dreary industrial...

S J Perelman: A dreary industrial...

A dreary industrial town controlled by hoodlums of enormous wealth, the ethical sense of a pack of jackals and taste...

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E B White: One of the...

E B White: One of the...

One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.

Source: Essays of E. B....

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Frederick Douglass: We had talked...

Frederick Douglass: We had talked...

We had talked long enough; we were now ready to move; if not now, we never should be; and if we did not intend to move...

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Frederick Douglass: [W]henever my condition...

Frederick Douglass: [W]henever my condition...

[W]henever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be...

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