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John Dalberg Acton: Writers the most...

John Dalberg Acton: Writers the most...

Writers the most learned, the most accurate in details, and the soundest in tendency, frequently fall into a habit...

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J Saunders Redding: From adolescence to...

J Saunders Redding: From adolescence to...

From adolescence to death there is something very personal about being a Negro in America.

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J Saunders Redding: I would not...

J Saunders Redding: I would not...

I would not know the thing I sought until I found it. It was both something within and something without myself....

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Annie Dillard: I woke at...

Annie Dillard: I woke at...

I woke at intervals until . . . the intervals of waking tipped the scales, and I was more often awake than...

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Gertrude Stein: It is extraordinary...

Gertrude Stein: It is extraordinary...

It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is...

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Gertrude Stein: But then of...

Gertrude Stein: But then of...

But then of course a philosophy is not the same thing as a style.

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Harriet Beecher Stowe: Whipping and abuse...

Harriet Beecher Stowe: Whipping and abuse...

Whipping and abuse are like laudanum; you have to double the dose as the sensibilities...

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Jessamyn West: A taste for...

Jessamyn West: A taste for...

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor for it takes irony to appreciate the joke...

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Jessamyn West: I have done...

Jessamyn West: I have done...

I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to...

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Jerome K Jerome: Conceit is the...

Jerome K Jerome: Conceit is the...

Conceit is the finest armour a man can wear.

Source: Idle Thoughts of an Idle...

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Jerome K Jerome: There is no...

Jerome K Jerome: There is no...

There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do.

Source: Idle Thoughts...

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Jerome K Jerome: We are so...

Jerome K Jerome: We are so...

We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold...

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Alvin Toffler: One of the...

Alvin Toffler: One of the...

One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new...

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Alvin Toffler: Our technological powers...

Alvin Toffler: Our technological powers...

Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also...

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Natalie Clifford Barney: Eternity -- waste...

Natalie Clifford Barney: Eternity -- waste...

Eternity -- waste of time.

Source: Quoted in: Adam, Gods, no. 299 (London,...

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John Galsworthy: A man of...

John Galsworthy: A man of...

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

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Alan Paton: To give up...

Alan Paton: To give up...

To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.

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Rumer Godden: The stitch of...

Rumer Godden: The stitch of...

The stitch of a book is its words.

Source: In Book-of-the-Month Club News, Sep...

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Mark Twain: What do we...

Mark Twain: What do we...

What do we call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, forgiveness? Different results of the master impulse, the...

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Sinclair Lewis: Our American professors...

Sinclair Lewis: Our American professors...

Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.

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