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Pearl Buck: Sometimes I would...

Pearl Buck: Sometimes I would...

Sometimes I would almost rather have people take away years of my life than take away a...

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Pearl Buck: Order is the...

Pearl Buck: Order is the...

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Elizabeth Bowen: No object is...

Elizabeth Bowen: No object is...

No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.

Source: The House in Paris,...

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Gertrude Stein: I could undertake...

Gertrude Stein: I could undertake...

I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient...

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Harriet Beecher Stowe: Whipping and abuse...

Harriet Beecher Stowe: Whipping and abuse...

Whipping and abuse are like laudanum; you have to double the dose as the sensibilities...

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Jessamyn West: Delay breeds fear....

Jessamyn West: Delay breeds fear....

Delay breeds fear.

Source: The Life I Really Lived, 1975
-- Jessamyn West, (Jul...

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Jerome K Jerome: There is no...

Jerome K Jerome: There is no...

There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do.

Source: Idle Thoughts...

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Ralph Ellison: When I discover...

Ralph Ellison: When I discover...

When I discover who I am, I'll be free.

Source: In Famous Black Quotations, ed....

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Alvin Toffler: You simply *must*...

Alvin Toffler: You simply *must*...

You simply *must* stop taking advice from other people.

Source: From a collection...

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Honore de Balzac: Modesty is the...

Honore de Balzac: Modesty is the...

Modesty is the conscience of the body.

Source:
-- Honore de Balzac, (May 20...

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Honore de Balzac: Friendships last when...

Honore de Balzac: Friendships last when...

Friendships last when each friend thinks he has a slight superiority over the other.

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Honore de Balzac: Men are so...

Honore de Balzac: Men are so...

Men are so made that they can resist sound argument, and yet yield to a glance.

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Honore de Balzac: Nature makes only...

Honore de Balzac: Nature makes only...

Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.

Source: In The...

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Italo Calvino: When politicians and...

Italo Calvino: When politicians and...

When politicians and politically minded people pay too much attention to literature, it is a bad sign -- a bad sign...

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E M Forster: The most successful...

E M Forster: The most successful...

The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful...

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn: It is not...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: It is not...

It is not the level of prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship of heart to heart and the way we look at...

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Arthur Conan Doyle: The temptation to...

Arthur Conan Doyle: The temptation to...

The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our...

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Arthur Conan Doyle: It is quite...

Arthur Conan Doyle: It is quite...

It is quite a three-pipe problem.

Source: The Red-Headed League.
-- Arthur Conan...

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Erica Jong: Ambivalence is a...

Erica Jong: Ambivalence is a...

Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.

Source:...

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Erica Jong: Bigamy is having...

Erica Jong: Bigamy is having...

Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Source: In Webster's...

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