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Pearl Buck: Order is the...

Pearl Buck: Order is the...

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Elizabeth Bowen: No object is...

Elizabeth Bowen: No object is...

No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.

Source: The House in Paris,...

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Elizabeth Bowen: I suppose art...

Elizabeth Bowen: I suppose art...

I suppose art is the only thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.

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Harriet Beecher Stowe: These words dropped...

Harriet Beecher Stowe: These words dropped...

These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think...

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Charles Buxton: Self-laudation abounds among...

Charles Buxton: Self-laudation abounds among...

Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as...

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Natalie Clifford Barney: Youth is not...

Natalie Clifford Barney: Youth is not...

Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.

Source: Samples...

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Dr Seuss: Adults are obsolete...

Dr Seuss: Adults are obsolete...

Adults are obsolete children.

Source: In The Wit and Wisdom of the 20th Century, by...

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Jean Toomer: A visit to...

Jean Toomer: A visit to...

A visit to Georgia last fall was the starting point of almost everything of worth that I have done. I saw lhe rich...

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Jean Toomer: Acceptance of prevailing...

Jean Toomer: Acceptance of prevailing...

Acceptance of prevailing standards often means we have no standards of our own.

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G K Chesterton: A man can...

G K Chesterton: A man can...

A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been a boy.

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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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Henry James, Jr: The power to...

Henry James, Jr: The power to...

The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the...

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Richard Hughes: The trouble with...

Richard Hughes: The trouble with...

The trouble with success is that a man may be perfectly sound on the short story but not very good about the atomic...

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Dr Seuss: Adults are obsolete...

Dr Seuss: Adults are obsolete...

Adults are obsolete children.

Source: In The Wit and Wisdom of the 20th Century, by...

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George Moore: The difference between...

George Moore: The difference between...

The difference between my quotations and those of the next man is that I leave out the inverted...

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Marguerite Duras: Men like women...

Marguerite Duras: Men like women...

Men like women who write. Even though they don't say so. A writer is a foreign country.

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Robert Penn Warren: How do poems...

Robert Penn Warren: How do poems...

How do poems grow? They grow out of your life.

Source: Poetry Is a Kind of...

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Mary Renault: You can make...

Mary Renault: You can make...

You can make an audience see nearly anything, if you yourself believe in it.

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Anatole France: When a thing...

Anatole France: When a thing...

When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.

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Henry James, Jr: She felt in...

Henry James, Jr: She felt in...

She felt in italics and thought in capitals.

Source: In Correct Quotes for DOS,...

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