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Douglas Adams: A computer terminal...

Douglas Adams: A computer terminal...

A computer terminal is not some clunky old television with a typewriter in front of it. It is an interface where the...

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Margaret Mitchell: I'm tired of...

Margaret Mitchell: I'm tired of...

I'm tired of saying, How wonderful you are! to fool men who haven't got one-half the sense I've got, and I'm tired of...

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Jean Rhys: The feeling of...

Jean Rhys: The feeling of...

The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere, heavy, melancholy, standing still. Like when they say, As it was in...

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Mary Renault: The perpetual stream...

Mary Renault: The perpetual stream...

The perpetual stream of human nature is formed into ever-changing shallows, eddies, falls and pools by the land over...

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Francois LaRochefoucauld: Commonplace minds usually...

Francois LaRochefoucauld: Commonplace minds usually...

Commonplace minds usually condemn what is beyond the reach of their understanding.

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Francois LaRochefoucauld: The height of...

Francois LaRochefoucauld: The height of...

The height of cleverness is being able to conceal it.

Source: Sentences et Maximes...

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Marcel Proust: The mistakes made...

Marcel Proust: The mistakes made...

The mistakes made by doctors are innumerable. They err habitually on the side of optimism as to treatment, of...

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Elizabeth Bowen: Jealousy is no...

Elizabeth Bowen: Jealousy is no...

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

Source: The House...

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Katherine Mansfield: Risk! Risk anything!...

Katherine Mansfield: Risk! Risk anything!...

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you....

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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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Iris Murdoch: Writing is like...

Iris Murdoch: Writing is like...

Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's...

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Alvin Toffler: The Law of...

Alvin Toffler: The Law of...

The Law of Raspberry Jam: The wider any culture is spread, the thinner it gets.

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Robert Stone: I start early...

Robert Stone: I start early...

I start early in the morning. I'm usually out in the woods with the dog as soon as it gets light; then I drink a whole...

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Louis L'Amour: One never realizes...

Louis L'Amour: One never realizes...

One never realizes how much and how little he knows until he starts talking.

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Natalie Clifford Barney: Fatalism is the...

Natalie Clifford Barney: Fatalism is the...

Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the evitable.

Source: In The Amazon of...

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Elias Canetti: It doesn't matter...

Elias Canetti: It doesn't matter...

It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.

Source:...

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Kenneth Grahame: The clever men...

Kenneth Grahame: The clever men...

The clever men at Oxford
Know all that there is to be knowed.
But they none of them know one half as much
As...

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Kenneth Grahame: The strongest human...

Kenneth Grahame: The strongest human...

The strongest human instinct is to impart information, the second strongest is to resist...

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Francois Rabelais: I am going...

Francois Rabelais: I am going...

I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.

Source:...

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Dorothy L Sayers: Paradoxical as it...

Dorothy L Sayers: Paradoxical as it...

Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in...

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