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Dale Carnegie: Flaming enthusiasm, backed...

Dale Carnegie: Flaming enthusiasm, backed...

Flaming enthusiasm, backed by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for...

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Franz Kafka: It is not...

Franz Kafka: It is not...

It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not...

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Charles Kingsley: He was one...

Charles Kingsley: He was one...

He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use...

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John Steinbeck: The writer must...

John Steinbeck: The writer must...

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this...

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Ken Kesey: The trouble with...

Ken Kesey: The trouble with...

The trouble with super heroes is what to do between phone booths.

Source: In...

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Marquis de Sade: Nature, who for...

Marquis de Sade: Nature, who for...

Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and...

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Graham Henry Greene: Cynicism is cheap...

Graham Henry Greene: Cynicism is cheap...

Cynicism is cheap -- you can buy it at any Monoprix store -- it's built into all poor-quality...

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn: You only have...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: You only have...

You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of...

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Douglas Adams: I may not...

Douglas Adams: I may not...

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to...

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Richard Bach: Here is the...

Richard Bach: Here is the...

Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you're alive, it...

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Richard Bach: A professional writer...

Richard Bach: A professional writer...

A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.

Source: A Gift of Wings,...

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Italo Calvino: Myth is the...

Italo Calvino: Myth is the...

Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there are as yet...

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Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach: In youth we...

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach: In youth we...

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Source: Aphorisms, 1905.
-- Marie von...

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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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Peter De Vries: Everybody hates me...

Peter De Vries: Everybody hates me...

Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked.

Source: The narrator, Joe...

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Francois Mauriac: A good critic...

Francois Mauriac: A good critic...

A good critic is the sorcerer that makes some hidden spring gush forth unexpectedly under our...

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Evelyn Waugh: What is youth...

Evelyn Waugh: What is youth...

What is youth except a man or woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?

Source:...

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Marquis de Sade: It is only...

Marquis de Sade: It is only...

It is only by enlarging the scope of one's tastes and one's fantasies, by sacrificing everything to pleasure, that...

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Mary McCarthy: I suppose everyone...

Mary McCarthy: I suppose everyone...

I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think,...

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Charles Dickens: Take nothing on...

Charles Dickens: Take nothing on...

Take nothing on its looks: take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.

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