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You can go through life and make new friends every year - every month practically - but there was never any substitute…
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A life without stories would be no life at all. And stories bound us, did they not, one to another, the living…
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But don't we often lie to people we love, or not tell them things, precisely because we love them?
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The point about love, the essential point, was that we loved what we loved. We did not choose. We just loved.
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Do you realise that people die of boredom in London suburbs? It's the second biggest cause of death amongs the English in…
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Gracious acceptance is an art - an art which most never bother to cultivate. We think that we have to learn how…
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Most people want nothing to happen. That is the problem with governments these days. They want to do things all the time;…
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Writers obviously have to bear witness to the harsh face of the age.
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The telling of a story, like virtually everything in this life, was always made all the easier by a cup of tea.
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It was time to take the pumpkin out of the pot and eat it. In the final analysis, that was what solved…
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We all know that it is women who take the decisions, but we have to let men think that the decisions are…
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Be content with who you are and where you are, and do whatever you can do to bring to others such contentment,…
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I truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things: the war on terror,…
— Bono
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The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
— Walter Bagehot
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All really good picture books are written to be read five hundred times
— Rosemary Wells
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Many of my books are written from a female perspective. I rather enjoy the take that women have on the world, and…
— Alexander McCall Smith
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In the end all books are written for your friends.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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My books are written with a strong chronological spine.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
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It does not follow because many books are written by persons born in America that there exists an American literature. Books which…
— Margaret Fuller
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Though my books are written from a historical perspective, I have goon so far back that I am in the realm of…
— Jean M. Auel
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In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public…
— Oscar Wilde
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If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The first duty of the novelist is to entertain. It is a moral duty. People who read your books are sick, sad,…
— Donna Tartt
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He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks…
— Samuel Johnson
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