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Richard Hughes: Middle age snuffs...

Richard Hughes: Middle age snuffs...

Middle age snuffs our more talent than ever wars or sudden deaths do.

Source: The...

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Kingsley Amis: The ideal of...

Kingsley Amis: The ideal of...

The ideal of brotherhood of man, the building of the Just City, is one that cannot be discarded without lifelong...

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William Golding: The journey of...

William Golding: The journey of...

The journey of life is like a man riding a bicycle. We know he got on the bicycle and started to move. We know that at...

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Hermann Hesse: All men are...

Hermann Hesse: All men are...

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

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Dorothy Gilman: But she knew...

Dorothy Gilman: But she knew...

But she knew that she had encountered one of the more devastating kinds of loneliness in existence: that of being in...

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Henry James, Jr: The advantage, the...

Henry James, Jr: The advantage, the...

The advantage, the luxury, as well as the torment of the novelist, is that there is no limit to what he may attempt-...

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Francois Rabelais: I have known...

Francois Rabelais: I have known...

I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.

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F Scott Fitzgerald: Never confuse a...

F Scott Fitzgerald: Never confuse a...

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Elizabeth Bowen: Experience isn't interesting...

Elizabeth Bowen: Experience isn't interesting...

Experience isn't interesting till it begins to repeat itself - in fact, till it does that, it hardly is...

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George Sand: One approaches the...

George Sand: One approaches the...

One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe.

Source:...

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Iris Murdoch: A bad review...

Iris Murdoch: A bad review...

A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.

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Max Eastman: People who demand...

Max Eastman: People who demand...

People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status...

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Ishmael Reed: Regardless of the...

Ishmael Reed: Regardless of the...

Regardless of the criticisms I receive from the left, the right and the middle, I think it's important to maintain a...

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Mickey Spillane: Those big-shot writers...

Mickey Spillane: Those big-shot writers...

Those big-shot writers could never dig the fact that there are more salted peanuts consumed than...

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Robert Stone: I write a...

Robert Stone: I write a...

I write a very rough first draft of every chapter, then I rewrite every chapter. I try to get it down in the first...

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Honore de Balzac: What is art?...

Honore de Balzac: What is art?...

What is art? Nature concentrated.

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

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Lydia M Child: There was a...

Lydia M Child: There was a...

There was a time when all these things would have passed me by, like the flitting figures of a theatre, sufficient for...

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Fawn M Brodie: A man's memory...

Fawn M Brodie: A man's memory...

A man's memory is bound to be a distortion of his past in accordance with his present interests, and the most faithful...

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Maria Edgeworth: An orator is...

Maria Edgeworth: An orator is...

An orator is the worse person to tell a plain fact . . .

Source: Harrington, ch....

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William Golding: Novelists do not...

William Golding: Novelists do not...

Novelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is part of the job that there should be much routine...

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