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Annie Dillard: We wake, if...

Annie Dillard: We wake, if...

We wake, if we ever wake at all, to mystery, rumors of death, beauty, violence.

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Gertrude Stein: I want to...

Gertrude Stein: I want to...

I want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.

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Jessamyn West: If you want...

Jessamyn West: If you want...

If you want a baby, have a new one. Don't baby the old one.

Source: In The...

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Jerome K Jerome: Among all nations...

Jerome K Jerome: Among all nations...

Among all nations there should be vast temples raised where people might worship in Silence and listen to it, for it...

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Jerome K Jerome: The weather is...

Jerome K Jerome: The weather is...

The weather is like the government, always in the wrong.

Source: Idle Thoughts of...

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Honore de Balzac: All human power...

Honore de Balzac: All human power...

All human power is a compound of time and patience.

Source: In Wisdom of the Ages...

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Honore de Balzac: All humanity is...

Honore de Balzac: All humanity is...

All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be...

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Honore de Balzac: To promote laughter...

Honore de Balzac: To promote laughter...

To promote laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect.

Source: In...

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Louisa May Alcott: Talent isn't genius...

Louisa May Alcott: Talent isn't genius...

Talent isn't genius and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a commonplace...

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn: A great writer...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: A great writer...

A great writer is, so to speak, a second government in his country. And for that reason no regime has ever loved great...

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Douglas Coupland: Human beings are...

Douglas Coupland: Human beings are...

Human beings are the only animal that thinks they change who they are simply by moving to a different place. Birds...

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E B White: Luck is not...

E B White: Luck is not...

Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.

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E B White: Writing is an...

E B White: Writing is an...

Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Annie Dillard: Every book has...

Annie Dillard: Every book has...

Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement...

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Jerome K Jerome: It is impossible...

Jerome K Jerome: It is impossible...

It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.

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Margot Asquith: Rich men's houses...

Margot Asquith: Rich men's houses...

Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to...

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Mark Twain: All scenery in...

Mark Twain: All scenery in...

All scenery in California requires distance to give it its highest charm.

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Mark Twain: I am prepared...

Mark Twain: I am prepared...

I am prepared to meet anyone, but whether anyone is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another...

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Mark Twain: I have been...

Mark Twain: I have been...

I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said...

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Mark Twain: I find that...

Mark Twain: I find that...

I find that the further I go back, the better things, whether they happened or not.

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