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If living is to progress, if you are lucky, from foolishness to wisdom, then to write novels is to broadcast the various stages of your foolishness.


Jane Smiley

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GARY F EVANS... Your ears love to hear, so speak to it
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SACHA GUITRY Life can only be understood looking backward. It must be lived forward.
ERIC ROTH Our wisdom comes from our experience,
and our experience comes from our foolishness.
SACHA GUITRY Dare to follow your own paths.
Dare to be yourself.
Dare to be different.
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ABHIJIT NASKAR I'm lucky not to have a nine-to-five job.
RUBY WAX If you try to save wisdom until the world is wise, Father, the world will never have it.
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GARY F EVANS... The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist.
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BIBLE Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness.
SOPHOCLES In a world of words, anything is possible...
LAURA WRIGHT LAROCHE The sad heart needs work to do.
JOAN BAUER Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _...
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NICOLAS GOMEZ DAVILA The fact is that if the writer's attention is on producing a work of art, a work that is good in its...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR The world of a writer is a world of imagination reduced to letters
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Just figure out what works for you!
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CALAMITY JANE It was considered the most dangerous route in the Hills, but as my reputation as a rider and quick s...
CALAMITY JANE By the time we reached Virginia City I was considered a remarkable good shot and a fearless rider fo...
CALAMITY JANE I actually failed my first license test. I got an automatic fail. I guess I had been doing well but ...
JANE LEVY You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.
JANE FONDA You want, in a sense, to relate to the main character, so often, the main character POV is a bit mor...
JANE GOLDMAN Thank God I've never had the sort of intense fame that means you can't walk up the road. Tha...
JANE ASHER What strange creatures brothers are!
JANE AUSTEN ...the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.
JANE AUSTEN [I]f a book is well written, I always find it too short.
JANE AUSTEN Angry people are not always wise.
JANE AUSTEN I am worn out with civility. I have been talking incessantly all night, and with nothing to say. But...
JANE AUSTEN The conversation soon turned upon fishing, and she heard Mr. Darcy invite him, with the greatest civ...
JANE AUSTEN Words were insufficient for the elevation of his [Mr Collins'] feelings; and he was obliged to walk ...
JANE AUSTEN