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Robertson Davies: Authors like cats...

Robertson Davies: Authors like cats...

Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same...

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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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E M Forster: I have only...

E M Forster: I have only...

I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me,...

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E M Forster: The final test...

E M Forster: The final test...

The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which...

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J G Ballard: Pop artists deal...

J G Ballard: Pop artists deal...

Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with...

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Salman Rushdie: Sometimes legends make...

Salman Rushdie: Sometimes legends make...

Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.

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Salman Rushdie: The only privilege...

Salman Rushdie: The only privilege...

The only privilege literature deserves -- and this privilege it requires in order to exist -- is the privilege of...

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Salman Rushdie: One of the...

Salman Rushdie: One of the...

One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes...

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Salman Rushdie: Writers and politicians...

Salman Rushdie: Writers and politicians...

Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the...

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John Fowles: There are only...

John Fowles: There are only...

There are only two races on this planet -- the intelligent and the stupid.

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Marquis de Sade: For mortal men...

Marquis de Sade: For mortal men...

For mortal men there is but one hell, and that is the folly and wickedness and spite of his fellows; but once his life...

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Milan Kundera: Listening to a...

Milan Kundera: Listening to a...

Listening to a news broadcast is like smoking a cigarette and crushing the butt in the...

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Thomas Wolfe: Culture is the...

Thomas Wolfe: Culture is the...

Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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P G Wodehouse: He spoke with...

P G Wodehouse: He spoke with...

He spoke with a certain what-is-it in his voice, and I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from...

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Christopher Morley: Big shots are...

Christopher Morley: Big shots are...

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Christopher Morley: High heels were...

Christopher Morley: High heels were...

High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.

Source: In...

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Charles Dickens: He's tough, ma'am,...

Charles Dickens: He's tough, ma'am,...

He's tough, ma'am, tough, is J. B. Tough and devilish sly!

Source: (Major Bagstock)...

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Charles Dickens: It was a...

Charles Dickens: It was a...

It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: Art raises its...

Friedrich Nietzsche: Art raises its...

Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: You will never...

Friedrich Nietzsche: You will never...

You will never get the crowd to cry Hosanna until you ride into town on an ass.

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