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E L Doctorow: Writing is a...

E L Doctorow: Writing is a...

Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.

Source: In Writers at Work,...

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Dr Seuss: From there to...

Dr Seuss: From there to...

From there to here,
and here to there,
funny things are everywhere.


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Emile Zola: If you shut...

Emile Zola: If you shut...

If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.

Source: In The...

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William Golding: Marx, Darwin and...

William Golding: Marx, Darwin and...

Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western World. Simplistic popularization of their...

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Fay Weldon: Worry less about...

Fay Weldon: Worry less about...

Worry less about what other people think about you, and more about what you think about...

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Henry James, Jr: I don't want...

Henry James, Jr: I don't want...

I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.

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Elizabeth Bowen: One can live...

Elizabeth Bowen: One can live...

One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.

Source: The Heat of the...

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William McFee: There is nothing...

William McFee: There is nothing...

There is nothing like an odor to stir memories.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Ishmael Reed: Writing has made...

Ishmael Reed: Writing has made...

Writing has made me a better man. It has put me in contact with those fleeting moments which prove the...

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Samuel Smiles: Where there is...

Samuel Smiles: Where there is...

'Where there is a will there is a way,' is an old and true saying. He who resolves upon doing a thing, by that very...

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Anthony Powell: Parents. . ....

Anthony Powell: Parents. . ....

Parents. . . are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfil the promise of their early...

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Brian Moore: In fact, one...

Brian Moore: In fact, one...

In fact, one thing that I have noticed. . . is that all of these conspiracy theories depend on the perpetrators being...

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Artemus Ward: Draw your salary...

Artemus Ward: Draw your salary...

Draw your salary before spending it.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Nelson Algren: The hard necessity...

Nelson Algren: The hard necessity...

The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the...

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Faith Baldwin: Time is a...

Faith Baldwin: Time is a...

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Source: Face Toward the...

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn: A man is...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: A man is...

A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

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Edith Clara Summerskill: Today, literate people...

Edith Clara Summerskill: Today, literate people...

Today, literate people of the space age, in well-populated countries, are not prepared to accept taboos without...

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Daniel Moynihan: If the newspapers...

Daniel Moynihan: If the newspapers...

If the newspapers of a country are filled with good news, the jails of that country will be filled with good...

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William McKinley: That's all a...

William McKinley: That's all a...

That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime -- to set an example -- and when he is dead, to be an inspiration...

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Lyndon B Johnson: Yesterday is not...

Lyndon B Johnson: Yesterday is not...

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

Source: In...

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