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Joseph Heller: Success and failure...

Joseph Heller: Success and failure...

Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying,...

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Lisa Alther: I wrote for...

Lisa Alther: I wrote for...

I wrote for twelve years and collected 250 rejection slips before getting any fiction published, so I guess outside...

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Lisa Alther: That's the risk...

Lisa Alther: That's the risk...

That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other...

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Artemus Ward: It ain't so...

Artemus Ward: It ain't so...

It ain't so much what people don't know that hurts as what they know that ain't so.

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Kenneth MacKenzie Clark: Opera, next to...

Kenneth MacKenzie Clark: Opera, next to...

Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen...

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Mark Hopkins: Religion without morality...

Mark Hopkins: Religion without morality...

Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is...

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Nannie Burroughs: To struggle and...

Nannie Burroughs: To struggle and...

To struggle and battle and overcome and absolutely defeat every force designed against us is the only way to...

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Henry Louis Gates, Jr: I want to...

Henry Louis Gates, Jr: I want to...

I want to be black, to know black, to luxuriate in whatever I might be calling blackness at any particular time, but...

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Henry Louis Gates, Jr: The act of...

Henry Louis Gates, Jr: The act of...

The act of writing for the slave constituted the act of creating a public, historical self, not only the self of the...

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Charlotte Forten Grimke: May those whose...

Charlotte Forten Grimke: May those whose...

May those whose holy task it is,
To guide impulsive youth,
Fail not to cherish in their souls
A reverence for...

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Warren Bennis: Ineffective leaders often...

Warren Bennis: Ineffective leaders often...

Ineffective leaders often act on the advice and counsel of the last person they talked to.

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Robert Hayden: [My poetry is]...

Robert Hayden: [My poetry is]...

[My poetry is] a way of coming to grips with reality . . . a way of discovery and definition. It is a way of solving...

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William Stanley Braithwaite: I am glad...

William Stanley Braithwaite: I am glad...

I am glad daylong for the gift of song,
For time and change and sorrow;
For the sunset wings and the world-end...

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Ruth Benedict: Culture is not...

Ruth Benedict: Culture is not...

Culture is not a biologically transmitted complex.

Source: Patterns of Culture,...

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Austin O'Malley: Many a man...

Austin O'Malley: Many a man...

Many a man wins glory for prudence by seeking advice, then seeking advice as to what advice would be best to take, and...

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Edward Gibbon: The style of...

Edward Gibbon: The style of...

The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of...

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Edward Gibbon: We improve ourselves...

Edward Gibbon: We improve ourselves...

We improve ourselves by victories over ourself. There must be contests, and we must win.

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A J P Taylor: In my opinion,...

A J P Taylor: In my opinion,...

In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer -- the wealth, prestige and grandeur...

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Theodore H White: I, alas, must...

Theodore H White: I, alas, must...

I, alas, must present myself somewhat ignominiously as a chef in a busy kitchen. Somewhere a novel is bubbling on a...

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Theodore H White: With the end...

Theodore H White: With the end...

With the end of the nominating process, American politics leaves logic behind.

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