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Louis L'Amour: Victory is not...

Louis L'Amour: Victory is not...

Victory is not won in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later win a little...

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Lydia M Child: Every man deems...

Lydia M Child: Every man deems...

Every man deems that he has precisely the trials and temptations which are the hardest of all others for him to bear;...

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Eudora Welty: Long before I...

Eudora Welty: Long before I...

Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to...

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Elias Canetti: The profoundest thoughts...

Elias Canetti: The profoundest thoughts...

The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something tricklike about them. A lot disappears in order for...

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Robertson Davies: Imagination is a...

Robertson Davies: Imagination is a...

Imagination is a good horse to carry you over the ground -- not a flying carpet to set you free from...

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R S Surtees: Three things I...

R S Surtees: Three things I...

Three things I never lends - my 'oss, my wife, and my name.

Source: Hillingdon...

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James Fenimore Cooper: Principles . ....

James Fenimore Cooper: Principles . ....

Principles . . . become modified in practice, by facts.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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James Michener: If you reject...

James Michener: If you reject...

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home. You...

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Fay Weldon: The New Women!...

Fay Weldon: The New Women!...

The New Women! I could barely recognize them as being of the same sex as myself . . . .They are satiated by...

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Anzia Yezierska: The power that...

Anzia Yezierska: The power that...

The power that makes the grass grow, fruit ripen, and guides the bird in flight is in us...

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George Meredith: Kissing don't last:...

George Meredith: Kissing don't last:...

Kissing don't last: cookery do!

Source: Mrs. Berry, in The Ordeal of Richard...

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Dorothy L Sayers: None of us...

Dorothy L Sayers: None of us...

None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach people that -- they have...

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Max Eastman: A poet in...

Max Eastman: A poet in...

A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke.

Source: In The...

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John Galsworthy: The beginnings and...

John Galsworthy: The beginnings and...

The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.

Source: In The...

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John Galsworthy: If you do...

John Galsworthy: If you do...

If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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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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Richard Hughes: Nature is as...

Richard Hughes: Nature is as...

Nature is as wasteful of promising young men as she is of fish spawn.

Source: The...

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Dr Seuss: Today was good.<br>Today...

Dr Seuss: Today was good.
Today...

Today was good.
Today was fun.
Tomorrow is another one.


Source: In Webster's...

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Dr Seuss: You make 'em,...

Dr Seuss: You make 'em,...

You make 'em, I amuse 'em.

Source: On children.
-- Dr Seuss, (Mar 2 1904-1991),...

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Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco: Blessed are those...

Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco: Blessed are those...

Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.

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