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Great Quotes by Andre Maurois
- A great biography should, like the close of a great drama, leave behind it a feeling of serenity. We collect into a small bunch the…
- The art of reading is in great part that of acquiring a better understanding of life from one's encounter with it in a book.
- The need to express oneself in writing springs from a mal-adjustment to life, or from an inner conflict which the adolescent (or the grown man)…
- Almost all great writers have as their motif, more or less disguised, the passage from childhood to maturity, the clash between the thrill of expectation…
- Writing is a difficult trade which must be learned slowly by reading great authors; by trying at the outset to imitate them; by daring then…
- Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art…
- The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life.
- Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. We lose many irreplaceable hours brooding over grievances that, in…
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