Quotes

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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it. — James A. Baldwin
Beautiful
Literature
Said
Historical Quotes
History
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We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same. ― Anne Frank
Happiness
Literature
Objective
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A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
Quotes About Loneliness
Loneliness
Soul
Literature
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In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
Quotes About Loneliness
Loneliness
Trying
Literature
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In my case, literature is a kind of revenge. It's something that gives me what real life can't give me - all the adventures, all the suffering. All the experiences I can only live in the imagination, literature completes.
― Mario Vargas Llosa
Case
Literature
Revenge
Imagination
Completes
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Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
― Boris Pasternak
Literature
Discovering
Extraordinary
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Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
― Herman Melville
Literature
Edges
Ragged
Herman Melville
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The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.
― Bertolt Brecht
Law
Naked
Literature
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It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.
― J. D. Salinger
Literature
Want
Practically
J. D. Salinger
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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
― Honoré de Balzac
Honore De Balzac
Equality
Power
Literature
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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
― Honoré de Balzac
Honore De Balzac
Jewels
Literature
Pearls
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In life there are two things which are dependable. The pleasures of the flesh and the pleasures of literature. ― Sei Shōnagon
Famous Sayings About Life
Dependable
Pleasures
Literature
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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
― Erica Jong
Night
Stories
Literature
Erica Jong
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I prefer being wrong in my own way to being right in someone else's.
― Yevgeny Zamyatin
Yevgeny Zamyatin
Inspirational
Art
Literature
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If we have no heretics we must invent them, for heresy is essential to health and growth.
― Yevgeny Zamyatin
Yevgeny Zamyatin
Growth
Essentials
Literature
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In general, in poetry and literature, I am among those people who believe that too much is indispensable.
― Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Believe
People
Literature
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I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.
― Lord Byron
Literature
Found
Duty
Lord Byron
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The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more.
― Kin Hubbard
Literature
Consumerism
Hardest
Kin Hubbard
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There are two ways to handle a woman, and nobody knows either of them.
― Kin Hubbard
Two
Literature
Way
Kin Hubbard
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It's what a fellow thinks he knows that hurts him.
― Kin Hubbard
Hurt
Thinking
Literature
Kin Hubbard