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Annie Dillard: I woke in...

Annie Dillard: I woke in...

I woke in bits, like all children, piecemeal over the years. I discovered myself and the world, and forgot them, and...

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Annie Dillard: I don't know...

Annie Dillard: I don't know...

I don't know what it is about fecundity that so appalls. I suppose it is the teeming evidence that birth and growth,...

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Harriet Beecher Stowe: No one is...

Harriet Beecher Stowe: No one is...

No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.

Source: Uncle Tom's...

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Jessamyn West: To meet at...

Jessamyn West: To meet at...

To meet at all, one must open ones eyes to another; and there is no true conversation no matter how many words are...

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Honore de Balzac: If those who...

Honore de Balzac: If those who...

If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring,...

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Honore de Balzac: I should like...

Honore de Balzac: I should like...

I should like one of these days to be so well known, so popular, so celebrated, so famous, that it would permit me . ....

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Natalie Clifford Barney: Most virtue is...

Natalie Clifford Barney: Most virtue is...

Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

Source: Quoted in: My Country 'tis...

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Richard Hughes: All that non-fiction...

Richard Hughes: All that non-fiction...

All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. It's fiction's business to ask them.

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A E Housman: Clay lies still,...

A E Housman: Clay lies still,...

Clay lies still, but blood's a rover;
Breath's a ware that will not keep.
Up, lad; when the journey's...

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A E Housman: But men at...

A E Housman: But men at...

But men at whiles are sober
And think by fits and starts,
And if they think, they fasten
Their hands upon...

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Felix Frankfurter: The dynamo of...

Felix Frankfurter: The dynamo of...

The dynamo of our economic system is self-interest which may range from mere petty greed to admirable types of...

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John Dalberg Acton: Be more severe...

John Dalberg Acton: Be more severe...

Be more severe to ideas than to actions; do not over look the strength of the bad cause or the weakness of the...

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Cornelius Nepos: The mother of...

Cornelius Nepos: The mother of...

The mother of a careful man seldom has cause for weeping.

Source: In Webster's...

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Arnold (Joseph) Toynbee: I do not...

Arnold (Joseph) Toynbee: I do not...

I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of...

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Ayn Rand: The hardest thing...

Ayn Rand: The hardest thing...

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to...

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Natalia Ginzburg: Every day silence...

Natalia Ginzburg: Every day silence...

Every day silence harvests its victims. Silence is a mortal illness.

Source: The...

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Ellen Glasgow: I suppose I...

Ellen Glasgow: I suppose I...

I suppose I am a born novelist, for the things that I imagine are more vital and vivid to me than the things I...

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Ernest J Gaines: Question everything. Every...

Ernest J Gaines: Question everything. Every...

Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything.

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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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Louis L'Amour: I'm like a...

Louis L'Amour: I'm like a...

I'm like a big old hen. I can't cluck too long about the egg I've just laid because I've got 5 more inside me pushing...

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