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Elizabeth Barrett Browning: What is genius...

Elizabeth Barrett Browning: What is genius...

What is genius -- but the power of expressing a new individuality?

Source: Letter,...

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Falsely conceived and...

Falsely conceived and...

Falsely conceived and rather clumsily executed . . . crooked folklore and halfway opera.

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Joseph Brodsky: Man is what...

Joseph Brodsky: Man is what...

Man is what he reads.

Source: Quoted by Thomas D'Evelyn Christian Science Monitor,...

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Max Born: Intellect distinguishes between...

Max Born: Intellect distinguishes between...

Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible; reason distinguishes between the sensible and the...

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George Orwell: The books one...

George Orwell: The books one...

The books one reads in childhood, and perhaps most of all the bad and good bad books, create in one's mind a sort of...

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Martin Amis: Bullets cannot be...

Martin Amis: Bullets cannot be...

Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the...

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Jack Kerouac: I don't know,...

Jack Kerouac: I don't know,...

I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference!

Source: In The...

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Franz Kafka: I think we...

Franz Kafka: I think we...

I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.

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J R R Tolkien: All that is...

J R R Tolkien: All that is...

All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost.

Source: The...

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Doroth?e DeLuzy: Employment and ennui...

Doroth?e DeLuzy: Employment and ennui...

Employment and ennui are simply incompatible.

Source: In The Last Word - A Treasury...

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Henry David Thoreau: Books, not which...

Henry David Thoreau: Books, not which...

Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man...

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Maxims and aphorisms,...

Maxims and aphorisms,...

Maxims and aphorisms, let us remember that wisdom is the true salt of literature, and the books that are most...

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If you could...

If you could...

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

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The crisis of...

The crisis of...

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Focus more on...

Focus more on...

Focus more on your desire than on your doubt, and the dream will take care of itself. You may be surprised at how...

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When you play...

When you play...

When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we're...

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Chaperons, even in...

Chaperons, even in...

Chaperons, even in their days of glory, were almost never able to enforce morality; what they did was to force...

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Every man who...

Every man who...

Every man who has lived for fifty years has buried a whole world or even two; he has grown used to its disappearance...

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There is no...

There is no...

There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting.

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Some of our...

Some of our...

Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write...

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