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A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which...
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The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper -- whether...
Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not...
. . . what is human and the same about the males and females classified as Homo sapiens is much greater than the...
I woke at intervals until . . . the intervals of waking tipped the scales, and I was more often awake than...
Native always means people who belong somewhere else, because they had once belonged somewhere. That shows that the...
The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes.Source: In An...
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City -- New York City is itself a detective...
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy,All play and no work makes Jack a mere toy. More about this quote
I make money using my brains and lose money listening to my heart. But in the long run my books balance pretty...
When one kicks over a tea table and smashes everything but the sugar bowl, one may as well pick that up and drop it on...
If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their...
Books have become products like cereal or perfume or deodorant.Source: In...
[The publishers] wanted some kind of book that lands on the best-seller list again and again. They didn't understand...
You cannot contribute anything to the ideal condition of mind and heart known as Brotherhood, however much you preach,...
He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down and without...
Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never...
Breed is stronger than pasture.Source: -- George Eliot, (Nov 22 1819-1880),...
Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot...
Were it not better to forget Than to remember and regret?Source: From an...
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