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Edith Wharton: Another unsettling element...

Edith Wharton: Another unsettling element...

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done...

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Carson McCullers: Our hunger for...

Carson McCullers: Our hunger for...

Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us [Americans] almost like a national disease. Our literature...

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Anne Tyler: I didn't really...

Anne Tyler: I didn't really...

I didn't really choose to be a writer; I more or less fell into it.

Source: A...

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Margaret Atwood: A voice is...

Margaret Atwood: A voice is...

A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and...

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Djuna Barnes: We are beginning...

Djuna Barnes: We are beginning...

We are beginning to wonder whether a servant girl hasn't the best of it after all. She knows how the salad tastes...

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Gail Godwin: Some things arrive...

Gail Godwin: Some things arrive...

Some things arrive in their own mysterious hour, on their own terms and not yours, to be seized or relinquished...

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Isak Dinesen: God made the...

Isak Dinesen: God made the...

God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.

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Anne Sophie Swetchine: Travel is the...

Anne Sophie Swetchine: Travel is the...

Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.

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Susan Warner: There is a...

Susan Warner: There is a...

There is a world there, Winthrop, -- another sort of world -- where people know something; where other things are to...

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Anne Rice: To write something,...

Anne Rice: To write something,...

To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.

Source: In The...

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Shirley Hazzard: It's a nervous...

Shirley Hazzard: It's a nervous...

It's a nervous work. The state that you need to write is the state that others are paying large sums to get rid...

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George Eliot: Excellence encourages one...

George Eliot: Excellence encourages one...

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the...

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Jane Austen: Everybody has their...

Jane Austen: Everybody has their...

Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters.

Source: In 2,715...

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Jane Austen: Business, you know,...

Jane Austen: Business, you know,...

Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.

Source: Emma,...

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Rose Tremain: Life should be...

Rose Tremain: Life should be...

Life should be embraced like a lover.

Source: In ...As One Mad With Wine, by Elyse...

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Rose Tremain: Life is not...

Rose Tremain: Life is not...

Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Source: In the Sunday Correspondent (London), 24 Dec...

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Mary Roberts Rinehart: The great God...

Mary Roberts Rinehart: The great God...

The great God endows His children variously. To some He gives intellect and they move the earth. To some He allots...

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Marguerite Duras: For that's what...

Marguerite Duras: For that's what...

For that's what a woman, a mother wants -- to teach her children to take an interest in life. She knows it's safer for...

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Barbara De Angelis: Love is a...

Barbara De Angelis: Love is a...

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful...

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Pearl Buck: Inside myself is...

Pearl Buck: Inside myself is...

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone, and that's where you renew your springs that never dry...

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