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Edward Dahlberg: We are a...

Edward Dahlberg: We are a...

We are a most solitary people, and we live, repelled by one another, in the gray, outcast cities of...

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Anthony Burgess: Americans will listen,...

Anthony Burgess: Americans will listen,...

Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which...

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Charles Dickens: Home is a...

Charles Dickens: Home is a...

Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the...

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Charles Dickens: Minerva House was...

Charles Dickens: Minerva House was...

Minerva House was 'a finishing establishment for young ladies,' where some twenty girls of the ages from thirteen to...

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Charles Dickens: Great men are...

Charles Dickens: Great men are...

Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.

Source:...

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Charles Dickens: On the Rampage,...

Charles Dickens: On the Rampage,...

On the Rampage, Pip, and off the Rampage, Pip; such is Life!

Source: (Joe Gargery)...

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Charles Dickens: He [Mr Turveydrop]...

Charles Dickens: He [Mr Turveydrop]...

He [Mr Turveydrop] is celebrated almost everywhere, for his Deportment.

Source:...

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Charles Dickens: When he has...

Charles Dickens: When he has...

When he has learnt that bottinney means a knowledge of plants, he goes and knows 'em. That's our system, Nickleby;...

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Charles Dickens: Say, like those...

Charles Dickens: Say, like those...

Say, like those wicked Turks, there is no What's-his-name but Thingummy, and What-you-may-call-it is his...

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Charles Dickens: She is come...

Charles Dickens: She is come...

She is come at last - at last - and all is gas and gaiters!

Source: (The Gentleman...

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John Steinbeck: A journey is...

John Steinbeck: A journey is...

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

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Marquis de Sade: Nature, who for...

Marquis de Sade: Nature, who for...

Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and...

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E M Forster: Tolerance is a...

E M Forster: Tolerance is a...

Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely...

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E M Forster: Ideas are fatal...

E M Forster: Ideas are fatal...

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Source: A Passage to India, pt. 1, ch. 7, 1924.
-- E M...

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Madeleine L'Engle: I didn't mean...

Madeleine L'Engle: I didn't mean...

I didn't mean to give you the impression that life at the cathedral is like Barchester Towers, as written by...

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Madeleine L'Engle: When the bright...

Madeleine L'Engle: When the bright...

When the bright angel [of creativity] dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven...

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John Steinbeck: Four hoarse blasts...

John Steinbeck: Four hoarse blasts...

Four hoarse blasts of a ship's whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to...

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John Steinbeck: It is a...

John Steinbeck: It is a...

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep...

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Salman Rushdie: I hate admitting...

Salman Rushdie: I hate admitting...

I hate admitting that my enemies have a point.

Source: Hamza, in The Satanic...

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Salman Rushdie: Literature is where...

Salman Rushdie: Literature is where...

Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I...

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