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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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Mark Twain: Guides cannot master...

Mark Twain: Guides cannot master...

Guides cannot master the subtleties of the American joke.

Source: Innocents Abroad,...

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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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George Meredith: Not till the...

George Meredith: Not till the...

Not till the fire is dying in the grate,
Look we for any kinship with the stars.
Oh, wisdom never comes when it...

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Douglas Coupland: If nothing else,...

Douglas Coupland: If nothing else,...

If nothing else, we simply get used to being alive.

Source: In Collection of...

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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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