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Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Without some goal...

Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Without some goal...

Without some goal and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.

Source: In...

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky: If you want...

Fyodor Dostoyevsky: If you want...

If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will...

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Edward Dahlberg: The earnings of...

Edward Dahlberg: The earnings of...

The earnings of a poet could be reckoned by a metaphysician rather than a bookkeeper.

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Herman Melville: For whatever is...

Herman Melville: For whatever is...

For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.

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Gustave Flaubert: Judge the goodness...

Gustave Flaubert: Judge the goodness...

Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. . . I believe the greatest characteristic...

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Upton Sinclair: I aimed at...

Upton Sinclair: I aimed at...

I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.

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Chinua Achebe: People create stories...

Chinua Achebe: People create stories...

People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.

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Knut Hamsun: A word can...

Knut Hamsun: A word can...

A word can be transformed into a coulour, light, a smell; it is the writer's task to use it in such a way that it...

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Dinah Mulock Craik: Keep what is...

Dinah Mulock Craik: Keep what is...

Keep what is worth keeping --
And with the breath of kindness
Blow the rest away.


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Tillie Olsen: There are worse...

Tillie Olsen: There are worse...

There are worse words than cuss words, there are words that hurt.

Source: In Words...

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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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Channing Pollock: Two things are...

Channing Pollock: Two things are...

Two things are as big as the man who possesses them -- neither bigger nor smaller. One is a moment, the other a...

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Ernest Bramah: One cannot live...

Ernest Bramah: One cannot live...

One cannot live for ever by ignoring the price of coffins.

Source: Kai Lung Unrolls...

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Romain Rolland: Every man who...

Romain Rolland: Every man who...

Every man who is truly a man must learn to be alone in the midst of all others, and if need be against all...

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William H Gass: Life is itself...

William H Gass: Life is itself...

Life is itself exile . . . It is a blow from which only death will recover us.

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Rudolph Fisher: In Harlem, black...

Rudolph Fisher: In Harlem, black...

In Harlem, black was white. You had rights that could not be denied you; you had privileges, protected by law. And you...

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Mary Roberts Rinehart: But to some...

Mary Roberts Rinehart: But to some...

But to some He gives only a soul, without intelligence and these, who never grow up, but remain always His children,...

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Jack Kerouac: No man should...

Jack Kerouac: No man should...

No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding...

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Boris Pasternak: I don't like...

Boris Pasternak: I don't like...

I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life...

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James Agee: In every child...

James Agee: In every child...

In every child who is born, under no matter what circumstances, and no matter what parents, the potentiality of the...

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