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John LeCarre: Having your book...

John LeCarre: Having your book...

Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.

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Nora Ephron: We have lived...

Nora Ephron: We have lived...

We have lived through the era when happiness was a warm puppy, and the era when happiness was a dry martini, and now...

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Charles Kingsley: Young blood must...

Charles Kingsley: Young blood must...

Young blood must have its course, lad, and every dog its day.

Source: In Correct...

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Margaret Atwood: Gardening is not...

Margaret Atwood: Gardening is not...

Gardening is not a rational act.

Source: Bluebeard's Egg/ 1986
-- Margaret...

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Boris Pasternak: What is laid...

Boris Pasternak: What is laid...

What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of...

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Charles Buxton: Experience shows that...

Charles Buxton: Experience shows that...

Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal.

Source: In The...

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Mary Lyon: If anyone thinks...

Mary Lyon: If anyone thinks...

If anyone thinks he has no responsibilities, it is because he has not sought them out.

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Johnnetta Betsch Cole: The woman who...

Johnnetta Betsch Cole: The woman who...

The woman who bore me is no longer alive, but I seem to be her daughter in increasingly profound...

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Johnnetta Betsch Cole: These young women...

Johnnetta Betsch Cole: These young women...

These young women have had four years of very special space . . . . safe space. But when they graduate, they will...

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Gilbert Highet: [B]y taking down...

Gilbert Highet: [B]y taking down...

[B]y taking down one of these volumes and opening it, one can call into range the voice of a man far distant in time...

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Henry Louis Gates, Jr: Insofar as we,...

Henry Louis Gates, Jr: Insofar as we,...

Insofar as we, critics of the black tradition, master our craft, we serve both to preserve our own traditions and to...

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Frances Perkins: Being a woman...

Frances Perkins: Being a woman...

Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees.

Source: In The Last Word - A...

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Robert Hayden: . . ....

Robert Hayden: . . ....

. . . your presence was shore where I rested
released from the hoodoo of that dance, where I spoke
with my true...

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Louis-Ferdinand Celine: The whole business...

Louis-Ferdinand Celine: The whole business...

The whole business of your life overwhelms you when you live alone. One's stupefied by it. To get rid of it you try...

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Louis-Ferdinand Celine: The novel can't...

Louis-Ferdinand Celine: The novel can't...

The novel can't compete with cars, the movies, television, and liquor. A guy who's had a good feed and tanked up on...

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Paul Tournier: No one can...

Paul Tournier: No one can...

No one can develop freely in this world and find a full life without feeling understood by at least one...

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Deepak Chopra: You and I...

Deepak Chopra: You and I...

You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all...

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Austin O'Malley: The hardest fact...

Austin O'Malley: The hardest fact...

The hardest fact in the world to accept is the inevitable mixture of evil with good in all...

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R D Laing: Life is a...

R D Laing: Life is a...

Life is a sexually transmitted disease and there is a 100 % mortality rate.

Source:...

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Karl A Menninger: Attitudes are more...

Karl A Menninger: Attitudes are more...

Attitudes are more important than facts.

Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase,...

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