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Every writing career starts as a personal quest for sainthood, for self-betterment. Sooner or later, and as a rule quite soon, a man discovers that his pen accomplishes a lot more than his soul.
Joseph Brodsky
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Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come.
Montesquieu
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To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism, to steal ideas from many is research.
Anonymous
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.
Gaston Bachelard
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There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life.
Frederika Bremer
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I must claim the quoter's privilege of giving only as much of the text as will suit my purpose, said Tan-Chun. If I told you how it went on, I should end up by contradicting myself!
Cao Xueqin
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Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.
E. M. Cioran
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Quotes from Mao, Castro, and Che Guevara... are as germane to our highly technological, computerized society as a stagecoach on a jet runway at Kennedy airport.
Saul Alinsky
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No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
Henry Brooks Adams
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Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, and always count their change when it is handed to them.
Catherine Drinker Bowen
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People want you to be a crazy, out-of-control teen brat. They want you miserable, just like them. They don't want heroes; what they want is to see you fall.
Leonardo DiCaprio
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There are times when I think that the ideal library is composed solely of reference books. They are like understanding friends-always ready to change the subject when you have had enough of this or that.
J. Donald Adams
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If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
Epictetus
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In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.
Mortimer J. Adler
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Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends.
Dawn Adams
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The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.
Bible
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