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George Eliot: All meanings, we...

George Eliot: All meanings, we...

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

Source: Daniel Deronda,...

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Saul Bellow: A novel is...

Saul Bellow: A novel is...

A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and a multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call...

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Saul Bellow: A great deal...

Saul Bellow: A great deal...

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is...

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Dorothy Miller Richardson: Coercion. The unpardonable...

Dorothy Miller Richardson: Coercion. The unpardonable...

Coercion. The unpardonable crime.

Source: Pilgrimage, Vol. IV, Ch. 9, 1938.
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John Barth: Nothing is intrinsically...

John Barth: Nothing is intrinsically...

Nothing is intrinsically valuable; the value of everything is attributed to it, assigned to it from outside the thing...

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Marion Zimmer Bradley: Speak not against...

Marion Zimmer Bradley: Speak not against...

Speak not against anyone whose burden you have not weighed yourself.

Source: Black...

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Nella Larsen: She wished to...

Nella Larsen: She wished to...

She wished to find out about this hazardous business of passing, this breaking away from all that was familiar and...

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Charles Morgan: The art of...

Charles Morgan: The art of...

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing...

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Norman Douglas: What is all...

Norman Douglas: What is all...

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? Take fifty of our current proverbial sayings -- they are so trite,...

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Patrick White: Well, good luck...

Patrick White: Well, good luck...

Well, good luck to you, kid! I'm going to write the Great Australian Novel.

Source:...

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Henry Fielding: The prudence of...

Henry Fielding: The prudence of...

The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.

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Jane Austen: Where an opinion...

Jane Austen: Where an opinion...

Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.

Source: Mary Crawford, in...

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Alexandra Ripley: We're not home-and-hearth...

Alexandra Ripley: We're not home-and-hearth...

We're not home-and-hearth people. We're the adventurers, the buccaneers, the blockade runners. Without challenge,...

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Alexandra Ripley: I really don't...

Alexandra Ripley: I really don't...

I really don't know why Scarlett has such appeal. When I began writing the sequel, I had a lot of trouble because...

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Eleanor H Porter: You breathe all...

Eleanor H Porter: You breathe all...

You breathe all the time you're sleep, but you aren't living. I mean living -- doing the things you want to do . . . ....

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Barbara Cartland: The right diet...

Barbara Cartland: The right diet...

The right diet directs sexual energy into the parts that matter.

Source: In...

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Channing Pollock: Happiness is a...

Channing Pollock: Happiness is a...

Happiness is a way-station between too little and too much.

Source: Mr....

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Channing Pollock: Each generation produces...

Channing Pollock: Each generation produces...

Each generation produces its squad of moderns with peashooters to attack Gibraltar.

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Ernest Bramah: There are those...

Ernest Bramah: There are those...

There are those who collect the refuse of the public streets, but in order to be received into the band it is...

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Publilius Syrus: It is not...

Publilius Syrus: It is not...

It is not every question that deserves an answer.

Source: Sententiae, no....

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