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It is not merely the truth of science that makes it beautiful, but its simplicity.
Walker Percy
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A man would rather fail according to his own ideas than succeed according to another's.
Kate Langley Bosher
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I am actually what my age and my upbringing have made me--a bourgeois who adheres to the British constitution, adheres to it rather than supports it, and the fact that this isn't dignified doesn't worry me.
E. M. Forster
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Then on your tombstone, where you only get a little bit of space to sum up your life, some wax-faced creep chisels a set of meaningless numbers instead of poetry or a secret love or the name of your favorite candy. In the end, all you get is a few words.
Scott Nicholson
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My attraction to story is a ceaseless current that runs through the center of me. My inexhaustible ardor for reading seems connected to my hunger for storylines that show up in both books and in the great tumbling chaos of life.
Pat Conroy
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Dying men think of funny things-and that's what we all are here, aren't we? Dying men.
Tad Williams
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Crises of expression and spasms of eros:
that's the man of today,
the inside a vacuum,
the continuity of personality
provided by his suit,
which with stout cloth might be good for ten years.
Gottfried Benn
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Gym class was, of course, where the strongest, best-looking kids were made captains and chose us spazzes last. More important, it was where the figures of supposed authority allowed them to do so. Forget the work our parents did molding our minds and values. Everything fell apart as soon as we put on those maroon polyester gym suits.
Ayelet Waldman
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My writing about Cuba [is] more like an act of creation. Whatever my Cuba is about, it's my own version. I'm not a cultural anthropologist.
Oscar Hijuelos
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A book exists at the intersection of the author's subconscious and the reader's response.
William Gibson
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Theoretical webs, dirty webs, fusty webs, old and shrivelling away into nothingness, a fine dust.Who needs that kind of stuff. Far far better getting out into the open air and doing it, actually doing it, something solid and concrete and unconceptualisable.
James Kelman
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I have learned in my thirty-odd years of serious writing only one sure lesson: stories, like whiskey, must be allowed to mature in the cask.
Seán Ó Faoláin
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It is a truism throughout the civilized galaxy that when you go to the police, your troubles really begin.
Robert Sheckley
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The way we lay
we mimed a body
of water. It was
this or that way
with
the dead and we
were them.
Nathaniel Mackey
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We are always the most violent against those whom we have injured.
Patrick O'Brian
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There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work.
William Gaddis
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London is a city of clubs and private houses. You have to be a member.
Alec Waugh
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Poetry is no more a narcotic than a stimulant; it is a universal bittersweet mixture for all possible household emergencies and its action varies accordingly as it is taken in a wineglass or a tablespoon, inhaled, gargled or rubbed on the chest by hard fingers covered with rings.
Robert Graves
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The Arctic Ocean encircles with a belt of eternal ice the desert confines of Siberia and North America--the uttermost limits of the Old and New worlds, separated by the narrow, channel, known as Behring's Straits.
Eugène Sue
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We only have one life to live, and must go on with it to the end, that if we feel it is meaningless, then we ourselves must give it meaning.
Susan Moody
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Slowly, but very deliberately, the brooding edifice of seduction, creaking and incongruous, came into being, a vast Heath Robinson mechanism, dually controlled by them and lumbering gloomily down vistas of triteness. With a sort of heavy-fisted dexterity the mutually adapted emotions of each of them became synchronized, until the unavoidable anti-climax was at hand.
Anthony Powell
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There's a lot more satisfaction in thinking about money than in spending it, if people only knew.
Josephine Pinckney
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The implications of self-definition, self-celebration, and perhaps not a little self-inflation and self-designation are nevertheless quite as obvious in each as for all.
Albert Murray (writer)
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The tiny flame danced beneath her fluttering breath, and she lifted the taper high above her head as she warily approached her visitor. His translucent eyes reflected the flickering light, and the hungry yearning visible in those luminous depths was so intense it seemed almost tangible.
Kathleen E. Woodiwiss
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We are a nation of children letting horrible things happen, and flunking Calc.
Daniel Handler
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