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789 Literary quotes by 596 unique authors
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I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do…
— Oscar Wilde
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A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world!
— Charles Dickens
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To be or not to be that is the question. Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,…
— William Shakespeare
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It's Tommy this, and Tommy that, and 'chuck 'im out, the brute,' But it's 'Savior of his Country,' When the guns begin to shoot!
— Rudyard Kipling
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I've learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow. I've learned…
— Maya Angelou
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He left the self-conscious literary demimonde of New York for the quiet infidelities of New England.
— John Heilpern
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Creation 'scientists' must be aware that the informed workers in literary interpretation and in physical and biological sciences regard their stance as irresponsible, and that…
— Unknown Author
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Let us now celebrate the literary allusion. Let us now celebrate the trope and willful enjambment. Let us now celebrate the assonance and alliteration of…
— Sherman Alexie
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Call on literary convention, and it will gladly tell your story for you.
— Mason Cooley
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We believe that Carlyle has, after all, more readers, and is better known to-day for thisvery originality of style, and that posterity will have reason…
— Henry David Thoreau
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These pages reproduce me very imperfectly, and there are many things in me of which I find no trace in them.I suppose it is because,…
— Unknown Author
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His style is eminently colloquial, and no wonder it is strange to meet with in a book. It is not literary or classical; it has…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Punctuation is over rated a fly on the page of the book can change it all to hell.
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
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I go to book stores to see if they have any miss prints on sale. I hate to read but I love mistakes it makes…
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
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