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A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.
— Margaret Atwood
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You're never going to kill storytelling, because it's built into the human plan. We come with it.
— Margaret Atwood
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Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you were safe unless someone came…
— Margaret Atwood
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I got into trouble a while ago for saying that I thought the internet led to increased literacy - people scolded me about the shocking…
— Margaret Atwood
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I was born in the Ottawa General Hospital right after the Gray Cup Football Game in 1939. Six months later, I was backpacked into the…
— Margaret Atwood
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The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think of is a scientific one:…
— Margaret Atwood
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When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet once in a bar very late at night, but do…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
— Saint Augustine
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O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.
— Saint Augustine
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Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances,…
— Saint Augustine
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By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.
— Saint Augustine
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Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but…
— Saint Augustine
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To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without…
— Jane Austen
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I barely can go shopping for clothes. I find it difficult to walk into stores. The whole thing bores me so much.
— Paul Auster
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I am my heart's undertaker. Daily I go and retrieve its tattered remains, place them delicately into its little coffin, and bury it in the…
— Emilie Autumn
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The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.
— Avicenna
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Don't let your sins turn into bad habits.
— Teresa of Avila
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When I took the habit, the Lord immediately showed me how He favours those who do violence to themselves in order to serve Him. No…
— Teresa of Avila
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We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces.
— Mahmoud Abbas
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A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink back…
— Sai Baba
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Look out into the universe and contemplate the glory of God. Observe the stars, millions of them, twinkling in the night sky, all with a…
— Sai Baba
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On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I…
— Charles Babbage
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