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Nathaniel Hawthorne: Great men have...

Nathaniel Hawthorne: Great men have...

Great men have to be lifted upon the shoulders of the whole world, in order to conceive their great ideas, or perform...

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Elizabeth Gaskell: People may flatter...

Elizabeth Gaskell: People may flatter...

People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds,...

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Dwight L Moody: We are told...

Dwight L Moody: We are told...

We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire...

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Lemuel B Haynes: Had the devil...

Lemuel B Haynes: Had the devil...

Had the devil come to our first parents personally and unmasked, they would have more easily seen the...

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A W Tozer: The Word of...

A W Tozer: The Word of...

The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection. And we must not...

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Heraclitus of Ephesus: If you do...

Heraclitus of Ephesus: If you do...

If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or...

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Jane Rule: I had never...

Jane Rule: I had never...

I had never been as resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes, perhaps because although I couldn't...

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Jane Rule: I believe only...

Jane Rule: I believe only...

I believe only in art and failure.

Source: This is Not for You, 1970.
-- Jane...

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Theodore Dreiser: Let no one...

Theodore Dreiser: Let no one...

Let no one underestimate the need of pity. We live in a stony universe whose hard, brilliant forces rage...

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Theodore Dreiser: Art is the...

Theodore Dreiser: Art is the...

Art is the stored honey of the human soul,
gathered on wings of misery and travail.


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Marguerite Yourcenar: Leaving behind books...

Marguerite Yourcenar: Leaving behind books...

Leaving behind books is even more beautiful -- there are far too many children.

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Marguerite Yourcenar: I have never...

Marguerite Yourcenar: I have never...

I have never seasoned a truth with the sauce of a lie in order to digest it more easily.

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Sir Walter Besant: A man of...

Sir Walter Besant: A man of...

A man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral...

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Judith Guest: Geez, if I...

Judith Guest: Geez, if I...

Geez, if I could get through to you, kiddo, that depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and...

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Judith Guest: And if you...

Judith Guest: And if you...

And if you ever do a survey, you'll find that people prefer illusion to reality, ten to one. Twenty,...

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Anne Rice: To really ask...

Anne Rice: To really ask...

To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the...

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Nancy Mitford: To fall in...

Nancy Mitford: To fall in...

To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.

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Naomi Mitchison: It was as...

Naomi Mitchison: It was as...

It was as though there was a film going on inside my head, and I was watching it as it went by. I was completely...

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Jean Ingelow: I have lived...

Jean Ingelow: I have lived...

I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.

Source: From...

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Francoise Sagan: Art must take...

Francoise Sagan: Art must take...

Art must take reality by surprise.

Source: Writers at Work
-- Francoise Sagan,...

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