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John Steinbeck: No one wants...

John Steinbeck: No one wants...

No one wants advice - only corroboration.

Source: In Quotable Business, ed. Louis...

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Francoise Sagan: Of course the...

Francoise Sagan: Of course the...

Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the...

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Louisa May Alcott: You have a...

Louisa May Alcott: You have a...

You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest...

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George Eliot: We hand folks...

George Eliot: We hand folks...

We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.

Source: Adam Bede, ch....

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Anthony Burgess: A novelist should...

Anthony Burgess: A novelist should...

A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although. . . he may be permitted to be an...

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Orson Scott Card: Welcome to the...

Orson Scott Card: Welcome to the...

Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life. The best you can do is choose to be controlled by good...

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Channing Pollock: Calm self-confidence is...

Channing Pollock: Calm self-confidence is...

Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from...

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E B White: Luck is not...

E B White: Luck is not...

Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.

Source:...

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Edmund Clerihew Bentley: What I like...

Edmund Clerihew Bentley: What I like...

What I like about Clive
Is that he is no longer alive.
There is a great deal to be said
For being...

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William Faulkner: If a writer...

William Faulkner: If a writer...

If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the Ode on a Grecian Urn is worth any number of old...

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Gustave Flaubert: There is not...

Gustave Flaubert: There is not...

There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.

Source: In...

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Gustave Flaubert: To see one's...

Gustave Flaubert: To see one's...

To see one's name in print! Some people commit a crime for no other reason.

Source:...

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Augusto Roa Bastos: The things that...

Augusto Roa Bastos: The things that...

The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he...

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Marion Zimmer Bradley: The truth is...

Marion Zimmer Bradley: The truth is...

The truth is not so good a story.

Source: The Firebrand, 1987.
-- Marion Zimmer...

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Marion Zimmer Bradley: Speak not against...

Marion Zimmer Bradley: Speak not against...

Speak not against anyone whose burden you have not weighed yourself.

Source: Black...

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Barbara Kingsolver: It's surprising how...

Barbara Kingsolver: It's surprising how...

It's surprising how much of memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.

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Brian Moore: As always on...

Brian Moore: As always on...

As always on this boulevard, the faces were young, coming annually in an endless migration from every country, every...

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Ronald Firbank: All millionaires love...

Ronald Firbank: All millionaires love...

All millionaires love a baked apple.

Source: Vainglory, Ch. 13.
-- Ronald...

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Robert Ludlum: The theater man...

Robert Ludlum: The theater man...

The theater man knows that he must involve the audience. He understands structure more than anyone else -- the logical...

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Lawana Blackwell: Propriety was a...

Lawana Blackwell: Propriety was a...

Propriety was a rigid master, but one that must be obeyed if one wanted to keep a sterling...

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