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S J Perelman: For years I...

S J Perelman: For years I...

For years I have let dentists ride roughshod over my teeth: I have been sawed, hacked, chopped, whittled, bewitched,...

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Edmund Clerihew Bentley: Sir Christopher Wren<br>Said,...

Edmund Clerihew Bentley: Sir Christopher Wren
Said,...

Sir Christopher Wren
Said, 'I am going to dine with some men.
If anybody calls
Say I am designing St...

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Frederick Douglass: Be not discouraged....

Frederick Douglass: Be not discouraged....

Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. . . . The resistance encountered now predicates hope. . . . Only as we...

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Mary Webb: When you dwell...

Mary Webb: When you dwell...

When you dwell in a house you mislike, you will look out of a window a deal more than those that are content with...

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Alan Paton: To give up...

Alan Paton: To give up...

To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.

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Malcolm Bradbury: If God had...

Malcolm Bradbury: If God had...

If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments -- we'd have the Ten...

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Edward Dahlberg: Hardly a book...

Edward Dahlberg: Hardly a book...

Hardly a book of human worth, be it heaven's own secret, is honestly placed before the reader; it is either shunned,...

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Douglas Adams: In the beginning...

Douglas Adams: In the beginning...

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a...

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Jane Rule: My private measure...

Jane Rule: My private measure...

My private measure of success is daily. If this were to be the last day of my life would I be content with it? To...

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P G Wodehouse: Has anybody ever...

P G Wodehouse: Has anybody ever...

Has anybody ever seen a dramatic critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no...

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P G Wodehouse: He felt like...

P G Wodehouse: He felt like...

He felt like a man who, chasing rainbows, has had one of them suddenly turn and bite him in the...

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James Thurber: When all things...

James Thurber: When all things...

When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing...

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Harper Lee: The one thing...

Harper Lee: The one thing...

The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

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Chinua Achebe: A man who...

Chinua Achebe: A man who...

A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.

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Ivy Compton-Burnett: Time . ....

Ivy Compton-Burnett: Time . ....

Time . . . is not a great healer. It is an indifferent and perfunctory one. Sometimes it does not heal at all. And...

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Paul Theroux: The Peace Corps...

Paul Theroux: The Peace Corps...

The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity.

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Tama Janowitz: I don't want...

Tama Janowitz: I don't want...

I don't want my novel to be like Madame Bovary, finely crafted with the life edited out of it. I want my novel to be...

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John Steinbeck: Four hoarse blasts...

John Steinbeck: Four hoarse blasts...

Four hoarse blasts of a ship's whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to...

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John Steinbeck: Somewhere in the...

John Steinbeck: Somewhere in the...

Somewhere in the world there is defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by...

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Salman Rushdie: Literature is where...

Salman Rushdie: Literature is where...

Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I...

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