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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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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.

Source:...

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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.

Source:...

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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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Louisa May Alcott: People don't have...

Louisa May Alcott: People don't have...

People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a...

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Louisa May Alcott: It takes people...

Louisa May Alcott: It takes people...

It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and...

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John Fowles: There are only...

John Fowles: There are only...

There are only two races on this planet -- the intelligent and the stupid.

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Marquis de Sade: Truth titillates the...

Marquis de Sade: Truth titillates the...

Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.

Source: Friar Claude, in...

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Graham Henry Greene: Catholics and Communists...

Graham Henry Greene: Catholics and Communists...

Catholics and Communists have committed great crimes, but at least they have not stood aside, like an established...

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Robert Ludlum: I write primarily...

Robert Ludlum: I write primarily...

I write primarily as an entertainer. But I find that whehter you're writing comically or dramtically, you write from a...

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Robert Ludlum: . . ....

Robert Ludlum: . . ....

. . . If you lose their interest, your're closing Saturday night.

Source: Ludlum on...

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Arnold Bennett: You can only...

Arnold Bennett: You can only...

You can only acquire really useful general ideas by first acquiring particular ideas . . . You cannot make bricks...

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J G Ballard: The technological landscape...

J G Ballard: The technological landscape...

The technological landscape of the present day has enfranchised its own electorates --the inhabitants of marketing...

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John Steinbeck: I know this...

John Steinbeck: I know this...

I know this -- a man got to do what he got to do.

Source: The Grapes of...

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