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Ralph Waldo Emerson: The quality of...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: The quality of...

The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze.

Source: In Instant...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: A certain awkwardness...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: A certain awkwardness...

A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts; but as soon as we have learned what to do with them, they...

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Jean Jacques Rousseau: Our will is...

Jean Jacques Rousseau: Our will is...

Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.

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Friedrich Nietzsche: Man... cannot learn...

Friedrich Nietzsche: Man... cannot learn...

Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with...

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Truman Capote: To me, the...

Truman Capote: To me, the...

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words...

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Frederick Buechner: In his holy...

Frederick Buechner: In his holy...

In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called...

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Gaston Bachelard: One must always...

Gaston Bachelard: One must always...

One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it. To remain in touch with...

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Henry Jackson Vandyke, Jr: It is with...

Henry Jackson Vandyke, Jr: It is with...

It is with rivers as it is with people: the greatest are not always the most agreeable nor the best to live...

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Shirley Jackson: [L]et my reader...

Shirley Jackson: [L]et my reader...

[L]et my reader who is puzzled by my awkward explanations close his eyes for no more than two minutes, and see if he...

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George W Bush: When I take...

George W Bush: When I take...

When I take action, I'm not going to fire a 2 million dollar missile at a 10 dollar empty tent and hit a camel in the...

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John Buchan: An atheist is...

John Buchan: An atheist is...

An atheist is a man without any invisible means of support.

Source: In Draper's...

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Charles V: A single friar...

Charles V: A single friar...

A single friar who goes counter to all Christianity for a thousand years must be wrong.

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Martha Washington: . . ....

Martha Washington: . . ....

. . . steady as a clock, busy as a bee, and cheerful as a cricket. . . .

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Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: [I want] minimum...

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: [I want] minimum...

[I want] minimum information given with maximum politeness.

Source: Instructions to...

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Fay Weldon: The desire for...

Fay Weldon: The desire for...

The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting...

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George Sand: He who draws...

George Sand: He who draws...

He who draws noble delights from the sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all...

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Flannery O'Connor: Anybody who has...

Flannery O'Connor: Anybody who has...

Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his...

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Flannery O'Connor: I am not...

Flannery O'Connor: I am not...

I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be...

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Eudora Welty: What I do...

Eudora Welty: What I do...

What I do in the writing of any character is to try to enter into the mind, heart and skin of a human being who is not...

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Milan Kundera: Nothing requires a...

Milan Kundera: Nothing requires a...

Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of...

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