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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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Evelyn Waugh: It is a...

Evelyn Waugh: It is a...

It is a curious thing that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of...

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Louisa May Alcott: All is fish...

Louisa May Alcott: All is fish...

All is fish that comes to the literary net. Goethe puts his joys and sorrows into poems, I turn my adventures into...

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John Fowles: Duty largely consists...

John Fowles: Duty largely consists...

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.

Source: The...

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Marquis de Sade: It is certain...

Marquis de Sade: It is certain...

It is certain that stealing nourishes courage, strength, skill, tact, in a word, all the virtues useful to a...

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Lois McMaster Bujold: His mother had...

Lois McMaster Bujold: His mother had...

His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized...

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Lois McMaster Bujold: I am who...

Lois McMaster Bujold: I am who...

I am who I choose to be. I always have been what I chose?though not always what I pleased....

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Christopher Morley: God made man...

Christopher Morley: God made man...

God made man merely to hear some praise
Of what he'd done on those Five Days.


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Christopher Morley: There are three...

Christopher Morley: There are three...

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning, and yearning.

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Milan Kundera: A novel that...

Milan Kundera: A novel that...

A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only...

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Milan Kundera: The basis of...

Milan Kundera: The basis of...

The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but the ignominy, the humiliation we feel that we must be...

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Margaret Atwood: A divorce is...

Margaret Atwood: A divorce is...

A divorce is like an amputation; you survive, but there's less of you.

Source: In...

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E M Forster: At night, when...

E M Forster: At night, when...

At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective...

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Charles Dickens: I only ask...

Charles Dickens: I only ask...

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.

Source: 'Bleak House'
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Charles Dickens: Wery good power...

Charles Dickens: Wery good power...

Wery good power o' suction, Sammy . . . You'd ha' made an uncommon fine oyster, Sammy, if you'd been born in that...

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Charles Dickens: Cows are my...

Charles Dickens: Cows are my...

Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by...

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Charles Dickens: Circumstances beyond my...

Charles Dickens: Circumstances beyond my...

Circumstances beyond my individual control.

Source: (Mr Micawber) David...

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