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Clive Barker: It is sickness...

Clive Barker: It is sickness...

It is sickness of the profoundest kind to believe that there is one reality. There is sickness in any piece of work or...

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Lillian Smith: Faith and doubt...

Lillian Smith: Faith and doubt...

Faith and doubt both are needed -- not as antagonists, but working side by side -- to take us around the unknown...

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Lillian Smith: The human heart...

Lillian Smith: The human heart...

The human heart does not stay away too long from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey to anguish that...

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Andre Gide: The want of...

Andre Gide: The want of...

The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains...

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P G Wodehouse: She fitted into...

P G Wodehouse: She fitted into...

She fitted into my biggest armchair as if it had been built round her by someone who knew they were wearing armchairs...

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P G Wodehouse: It is a...

P G Wodehouse: It is a...

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take...

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Christopher Morley: Cherish all your...

Christopher Morley: Cherish all your...

Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for your old age.

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Alan Brien: The country is...

Alan Brien: The country is...

The country is laid out in a haphazard, sloppy fashion, offensive to the tidy, organized...

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Mark Twain: Part of the...

Mark Twain: Part of the...

Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out...

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Mark Twain: Warm summer sun,...

Mark Twain: Warm summer sun,...

Warm summer sun, shine kindly here;
Warm southern wind, blow softly here;
Green sod above, lie light, lie light...

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Channing Pollock: No man in...

Channing Pollock: No man in...

No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

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E B White: A good farmer...

E B White: A good farmer...

A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.

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William Golding: Sleep is when...

William Golding: Sleep is when...

Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high...

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William Golding: Novelists do not...

William Golding: Novelists do not...

Novelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is part of the job that there should be much routine...

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Channing Pollock: No man in...

Channing Pollock: No man in...

No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

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William Faulkner: All of us...

William Faulkner: All of us...

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the...

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James Fenimore Cooper: The press, like...

James Fenimore Cooper: The press, like...

The press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.

Source: The...

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Gustave Flaubert: There is not...

Gustave Flaubert: There is not...

There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.

Source: In...

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Gustave Flaubert: To see one's...

Gustave Flaubert: To see one's...

To see one's name in print! Some people commit a crime for no other reason.

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Chinua Achebe: When old people...

Chinua Achebe: When old people...

When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which...

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