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Marguerite Duras: Paradoxically, the freedom...

Marguerite Duras: Paradoxically, the freedom...

Paradoxically, the freedom of Paris is associated with a persistent belief that nothing ever changes. Paris, they say,...

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William Golding: He was as...

William Golding: He was as...

He was as fitted to survival in this modern world as a tapeworm in an intestine.

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Margaret Halsey: The people who...

Margaret Halsey: The people who...

The people who say you are not facing reality actually mean that you are not facing their idea of reality. Reality is...

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Gustave Flaubert: Nothing is more...

Gustave Flaubert: Nothing is more...

Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed it.

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Thomas Wolfe: Publishing is a...

Thomas Wolfe: Publishing is a...

Publishing is a very mysterious business. It is hard to predict what kind of sale or reception a book will have, and...

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Margery Allingham: Self-satisfaction is the...

Margery Allingham: Self-satisfaction is the...

Self-satisfaction is the state of mind of those who have the happy conviction that they are not as other...

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Samuel Smiles: The very greatest...

Samuel Smiles: The very greatest...

The very greatest things -- great thoughts, discoveries, inventions -- have usually been nurtured in hardship, often...

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Francois LaRochefoucauld: One is never...

Francois LaRochefoucauld: One is never...

One is never as unhappy as one thinks, nor as happy as one had hoped for.

Source:...

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Francois LaRochefoucauld: The only good...

Francois LaRochefoucauld: The only good...

The only good imitations are those that poke fun at bad originals.

Source: In...

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Natalia Ginzburg: Children should be...

Natalia Ginzburg: Children should be...

Children should be taught not the little virtues but the great ones. Not thrift but generosity and an indifference to...

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Alvin Toffler: You can use...

Alvin Toffler: You can use...

You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and...

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Osbert Sitwell: It is fatal...

Osbert Sitwell: It is fatal...

It is fatal to be appreciated in one's own time.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Samuel Smiles: It is a...

Samuel Smiles: It is a...

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept,...

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Ian Fleming: My mental hands...

Ian Fleming: My mental hands...

My mental hands were empty, and I felt I must do something as a counterirritant or antibody to my hysterical alarm at...

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Annie Dillard: Appealing workplaces are...

Annie Dillard: Appealing workplaces are...

Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the...

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Natalia Ginzburg: As soon as...

Natalia Ginzburg: As soon as...

As soon as we see our dreams betrayed we realize that the intensest joys of our life have nothing to do with reality,...

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Jessamyn West: Fiction is [a...

Jessamyn West: Fiction is [a...

Fiction is [a form of writing which] reveals truths that reality obscures.

Source:...

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Jerome K Jerome: It is impossible...

Jerome K Jerome: It is impossible...

It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.

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Ernest J Gaines: I have learned...

Ernest J Gaines: I have learned...

I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have by...

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Ernest J Gaines: We wait till...

Ernest J Gaines: We wait till...

We wait till now? Now, when we're old men, we get to be brave?

Source: A Gathering...

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