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You were never poor as long as you had something to love.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
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People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them that Benjamin Franklin said it first. Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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If people like to read their books, it is all very well, but to be at so much trouble in filling great volumes, which, as I used to think, nobody would willingly ever look into, to be labouring only for the torment of little boys and girls, always struck me as a hard fate.
Jane Austen
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My father always had doubts about the Booker prize, although they evaporated on the announcement that he had won it.
Martin Amis
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Let us eat, drink and satisfy our coarse appetites, but let us keep our souls sacred and apart.
Emile Zola
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Children are young, but they're not naive. And they're honest. They're not going to keep wide awake if the story is boring. When they get excited you can see it in their eyes.
Chinua Achebe
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Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths. We must be willing to get rid of the life we planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. I have bought this wonderful machine a computer ... it seems to me to be an Old Testament god, with a lot of rules and no mercy.
Joseph Campbell
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I've been trying to write for as long as I can remember. But those first fifteen years didn't produce much of great interest. I mean, it embarrasses me very much to look back on my early poems--very few lines of any merit at all and lots of affectation. But there were quite a lot of them. That's a point in one's favor.
Kingsley Amis
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"I always have to have sweet and salty. I know some of you are going to say, ""Oh, I tried dates. I hate them."" That's probably because you had the ones that were on the shelf for three years. Go to some healthy place and get the fresh ones, and you will just love them. You'll start eating them and think they're so good."
Sandra Cisneros
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You must really begin to harden yourself to the idea of being worth looking at.
Jane Austen
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The fact is that every atom that we're made of is part of that first explosion of a nuclear star billions of years ago. We're connected to the entire universe.
Jeanette Winterson
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Theres no story thats the start of itself.
Jeanette Winterson
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I don't write directly on to the computer because I don't think well facing forward with fingers on a keyboard. I think better looking down holding a pen. And the concentration quotient of pen and paper is higher than when I'm moving words around on screen.
Joshua Ferris
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You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets.
Nora Ephron
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A pint can't hold a quart - if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.
Margaret Deland
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I didn't mind being unpopular at school, because everyone else was a heathen.
Jeanette Winterson
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Vanity, not love, has been my folly.
Jane Austen
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"""Kindness"" can mean a lot of different things. In this case, I felt I had to present his [Donald Trump's] supporters in as fair a light as possible - many of them hadn't been interviewed before and that entailed some interviewer-courtesy in the editing and so on."
George Saunders
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Love does not die, when someone gets old, people get old, because they can not love anymore.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream
Virginia Woolf
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Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night.
Virginia Woolf
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I have sought happiness through many ages and not found it.
Virginia Woolf
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When she read just now to James, 'and there were numbers of soldiers with kettledrums and trumpets,' and his eyes darkened, she thought, why should they grow up, and lose all that?
Virginia Woolf
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