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Aldous Huxley Technological progress has merely provided us with more ef... Aldous Huxley After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the ... Aldous Huxley The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journe... Anatole France To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.... Anatole France An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, ... Anatole France All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancho... Anatole France It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my li... Andre Gide Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the... Andre Gide Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens ... Andre Gide "Therefore" is a word the poet must not know.... Andre Gide It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their pass... Andre Gide Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance... Andre Malraux To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.... Antoine de Saint-Exupery Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for som... Antoine de Saint-Exupery War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhu... Antoine de Saint-Exupery The machine does not isolate man from the great problems o... Antoine de Saint-Exupery A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single m... Antoine de Saint-Exupery Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in ... George Gissing For the man sound in body and serene of mind there is no s... Arnold Bennett Any change, even a change for the better, is always accomp... Barbara Kingsolver Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matte... Barbara Kingsolver Why does a person even get up in the morning? You have bre... Barbara Pym How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody... Boris Pasternak Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunchi... Charles Dickens There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.... Daphne du Maurier All autobiography is self-indulgent.... Don DeLillo There's always a period of curious fear between the first ... Dorothy Gilman People need dreams, there's as much nourishment in 'em as ... Elie Wiesel Some stories are true that never happened.... Ellen Glasgow All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.... E. M. Forster To make us feel small in the right way is a function of ar... E. M. Forster Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of ment... E. M. Forster Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the m... E. M. Forster A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to... Emile Zola The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is no... Emily Bronte Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.... Erica Jong Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow... Erich Segal Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.... Ernest Hemingway The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallet... Ernest Hemingway Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how jus... Ernest Hemingway In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reaso... Faith Baldwin Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.... Fay Weldon There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.... Gail Godwin Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths ... George MacDonald If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the ... George MacDonald It is not in the nature of politics that the best men shou... George MacDonald Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.... George Sand He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a... George Sand Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his str... Gerard De Nerval Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.... Gore Vidal Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. H... Gore Vidal Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous election... Gore Vidal The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a major... Gore Vidal For half a century photography has been the "art form" of ... Gore Vidal Any American who is prepared to run for president should a... Gustave Flaubert Of all lies, art is the least untrue.... Gustave Flaubert Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure ... Gustave Flaubert Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be vi... Hamlin Garland I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant... Hamlin Garland Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my bl... Hamlin Garland My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me ble... Honore de Balzac The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying ... Honore de Balzac A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf h... Honore de Balzac A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor kn... Isaac Bashevis Singer Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his ... Isaac Bashevis Singer I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for ... Isaac Bashevis Singer Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers ... Isaac Bashevis Singer I don't invent characters because the Almightly has alread... Jack London You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it wi... J. D. Salinger I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down.... Jeanette Winterson We are friends and I do like to pass the day with you in s... John Fowles In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be... John Updike What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for th... John Updike Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how ch... John Updike The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk exces... Joseph Conrad Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to ... Joyce Carol Oates Boxing has become America's tragic theater.... Joyce Carol Oates In love there are things - bodies and words.... Judith Viorst Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a... Judith Viorst One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of lo... Judith Viorst You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with... Kathleen Norris None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what... Leo Rosten Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary ... Leo Rosten A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after... Leo Rosten I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'... Leo Rosten Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.... Leo Tolstoy Music is the shorthand of emotion.... Lillian Smith Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but ... Margaret Atwood The Eskimo has fifty-two names for snow because it is impo... Margaret Truman He loved politicians - even Republicans.... Max Frisch Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we ... Muriel Spark To me education is a leading out of what is already there ... Muriel Spark When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline ... Muriel Spark It is one of the secrets of Nature in its mood of mockery ... P. D. James It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which oc... Pearl S. Buck We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgen... Pearl S. Buck To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.... Peter De Vries The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his ... Peter De Vries The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mat... Peter De Vries The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with ... Richard Bach Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is ... Richard Bach Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want t... Richard Bach The more I want to get something done, the less I call it ... Robert Graves There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in ... Robert Graves Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, p... Robert Graves Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signifie... Robert Penn Warren The poet is in the end probably more afraid of the dogmati... Robert Penn Warren The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life... Robertson Davies Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know... Salman Rushdie A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at fraud... Saul Bellow Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presi... Sinclair Lewis People will buy anything that is 'one to a customer.'... Sinclair Lewis Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is st... Sloan Wilson Success in almost any field depends more on energy and dri... Susan Ertz Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do wi... Theodore Dreiser Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on win... Thornton Wilder Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a ... Thornton Wilder The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all th... Tillie Olsen The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what ... Tillie Olsen And when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to ... Toni Morrison She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I ... Toni Morrison All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to ge... Thomas Hardy If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inq... Truman Capote Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third ... Umberto Eco But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an ... Walter Scott Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainl... Walter Scott Success or failure in business is caused more by the menta... William Faulkner To live anywhere in the world today and be against equalit... William Faulkner Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being cl... William Faulkner The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life... William Faulkner All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I r... William Faulkner It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight ho...

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