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James Thurber: A pinch of...

James Thurber: A pinch of...

A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Artemus Ward: Why care for...

Artemus Ward: Why care for...

Why care for grammar as long as we are good?

Source: Pyrotechny.
-- Artemus...

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William Golding: He was as...

William Golding: He was as...

He was as fitted to survival in this modern world as a tapeworm in an intestine.

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Henry Miller: The worst sin...

Henry Miller: The worst sin...

The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment...

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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. The winner is he who gives himself to his work body...

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Margaret Atwood: If the national...

Margaret Atwood: If the national...

If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid...

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Sir Walter Scott: To be always...

Sir Walter Scott: To be always...

To be always intending to live a new life, but never find time to set about it - this is as if a man should put off...

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F Scott Fitzgerald: No grand idea...

F Scott Fitzgerald: No grand idea...

No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.

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Iris Murdoch: All artists dream...

Iris Murdoch: All artists dream...

All artists dream of a silence which they must enter, as some creatures return to the sea to...

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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: My dreams were...

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: My dreams were...

My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed -- my dearest pleasure...

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Charles Buxton: The rule in...

Charles Buxton: The rule in...

The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a...

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Natalie Clifford Barney: Novels are longer...

Natalie Clifford Barney: Novels are longer...

Novels are longer than life.

Source: In Adam, no. 299, On Writing and Writers,...

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F Scott Fitzgerald: Vitality shows not...

F Scott Fitzgerald: Vitality shows not...

Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist, but in the ability to start over.

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Jessamyn West: A broken bone...

Jessamyn West: A broken bone...

A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.

Source: The...

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Sarah Orne Jewett: Tain't worthwhile to...

Sarah Orne Jewett: Tain't worthwhile to...

'Tain't worthwhile to wear a day all out before it comes.

Source: The Country of...

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Homer: And what he...

Homer: And what he...

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Source: In Wisdom of the Ages at Your...

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Samuel Smiles: It will generally...

Samuel Smiles: It will generally...

It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of...

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Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach: If you have...

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach: If you have...

If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty.

Source: Aph, 1905.
--...

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Emile Zola: Art is a...

Emile Zola: Art is a...

Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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G K Chesterton: As enunciated today,...

G K Chesterton: As enunciated today,...

As enunciated today, 'progress' is simply a comparative of which we have not settled the...

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