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Charles Dickens: A literary man...

Charles Dickens: A literary man...

A literary man - with a wooden leg.

Source: (Mr Boffin on Silas Wegg) Our Mutual...

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Charles Dickens: C-l-e-a-n, clean, verb...

Charles Dickens: C-l-e-a-n, clean, verb...

C-l-e-a-n, clean, verb active, to make bright, to scour. W-i-n, win, d-e-r, der, winder, a casement. When the boy...

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Charles Dickens: The mistake was...

Charles Dickens: The mistake was...

The mistake was made of putting some of the trouble out of King Charles's head into my...

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Charles Dickens: Something will come...

Charles Dickens: Something will come...

Something will come of this. I hope it mayn't be human gore.

Source: (Simon...

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Charles Dickens: It's over, and...

Charles Dickens: It's over, and...

It's over, and can't be helped, and that's one consolation, as they always say in Turkey, ven they cuts the wrong...

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George Eliot: How could a...

George Eliot: How could a...

How could a man be satisfied with a decision between such alternatives and under such circumstances? No more than he...

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George Eliot: Our deeds still...

George Eliot: Our deeds still...

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Their teacher had...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Their teacher had...

Their teacher had advised them not to read Tolstoy novels, because they were very long and would easily confuse the...

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Thomas Wolfe: This is the...

Thomas Wolfe: This is the...

This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's...

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Thomas Wolfe: Is this not...

Thomas Wolfe: Is this not...

Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping...

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Jane Austen: A woman especially,...

Jane Austen: A woman especially,...

A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing any thing, should conceal it as well as she...

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Jane Austen: A lady's imagination...

Jane Austen: A lady's imagination...

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a...

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Jane Austen: In every power,...

Jane Austen: In every power,...

In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the...

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Jane Austen: Surprises are foolish...

Jane Austen: Surprises are foolish...

Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced and the inconvenience is often...

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Richard Bach: As you believe,...

Richard Bach: As you believe,...

As you believe, so it is for you.

Source:
-- Richard Bach, (Jun 23 1936-____),...

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Richard Bach: Don't be dismayed...

Richard Bach: Don't be dismayed...

Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or...

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Marguerite Duras: Paradoxically, the freedom...

Marguerite Duras: Paradoxically, the freedom...

Paradoxically, the freedom of Paris is associated with a persistent belief that nothing ever changes. Paris, they say,...

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Milan Kundera: Optimism is the...

Milan Kundera: Optimism is the...

Optimism is the opium of the people.

Source: The Joke, pt. 3, ch. 3 (1967; tr....

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Milan Kundera: Solitude: a sweet...

Milan Kundera: Solitude: a sweet...

Solitude: a sweet absence of looks.

Source: Immortality, pt. 1, ch. 6 (1991).
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Margaret Atwood: Sons branch out,...

Margaret Atwood: Sons branch out,...

Sons branch out, but one woman leads to another.

Source: In Words of Women...

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