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Mary Stewart: Have you ever...

Mary Stewart: Have you ever...

Have you ever thought, when something dreadful happens, a moment ago things were not like this, let it be then, not...

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Samuel Smiles: The reason why...

Samuel Smiles: The reason why...

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

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E L Konigsburg: Lying in bed...

E L Konigsburg: Lying in bed...

Lying in bed just before going to sleep is the worst time for organized thinking; it is the best time for free...

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E L Konigsburg: Happiness is excitement...

E L Konigsburg: Happiness is excitement...

Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping...

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Enid Bagnold: Who wants to...

Enid Bagnold: Who wants to...

Who wants to become a writer? And why? Because it's the answer to everything. To Why am I here? To uselessness. It's...

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Marguerite Duras: The thing that's...

Marguerite Duras: The thing that's...

The thing that's between us is fascination, and the fascination resides in our being alike. Whether you're a man or a...

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Eden Phillpotts: Faith is a...

Eden Phillpotts: Faith is a...

Faith is a permanent and vital endowment of the human mind -- a part of reason itself. The insane alone are without...

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John Sterling: There is no...

John Sterling: There is no...

There is no lie that a man will not believe; and there is no man who does not believe many lies; and there is no man...

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Thomas Love Peacock: Respectable means rich,...

Thomas Love Peacock: Respectable means rich,...

Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called...

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Boris Pasternak: No bad man...

Boris Pasternak: No bad man...

No bad man can be a good poet.

Source: Quoted in Ilya Ehrenburg, Truce
-- Boris...

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Mary Renault: In hatred as...

Mary Renault: In hatred as...

In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very...

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Marcel Proust: If a little...

Marcel Proust: If a little...

If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the...

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Katherine Mansfield: Tidied all my...

Katherine Mansfield: Tidied all my...

Tidied all my papers. Tore up and ruthlessly destroyed much. This is always a great...

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William McFee: The world belongs...

William McFee: The world belongs...

The world belongs to the enthusiast who keeps cool.

Source: In Pearls of Wisdom,...

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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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Carolyn Wells: Of two evils...

Carolyn Wells: Of two evils...

Of two evils choose the prettier.

Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed....

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Osbert Sitwell: The artist, like...

Osbert Sitwell: The artist, like...

The artist, like the idiot, or clown, sits on the edge of the world, and a push may send him over...

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Elias Canetti: The process of...

Elias Canetti: The process of...

The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single...

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Elias Canetti: Success is the...

Elias Canetti: Success is the...

Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence.

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Fawn M Brodie: Housework is a...

Fawn M Brodie: Housework is a...

Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like...

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