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Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take…
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That's the public-school system all over. They may kick you out, but they never let you down.
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She had heard someone say something about an Independent Labour Party, and was furious that she had not been asked.
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Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.
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Of the many smells of Athens two seem to me the most characteristic - that of garlic, bold and deadly like acetylene…
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One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric.
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If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside.
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I haven't been to sleep for over a year. That's why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one…
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I [had] added another small piece to the pages of the atlas that were real to me.
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Most writers in the course of their careers become thick-skinned and learn to accept vituperation, which in any other profession would be…
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Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of…
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The book written against fame and learning has the author's name on the title-page.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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When I type a title page, I hold it and I look at it and I think, I just need four thousand…
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Most men are followers, and implicitly rely upon the judgment of others. They mistake solemnity for wisdom, and regard a grave countenance…
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A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
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When I was in college, I was the editor of the literary magazine and insisted neither the editors nor the writers be…
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Your life is like a book. The title page is your name, the preface your introductions to the world. The pages are…
— Grenville Kleiser
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One writer, for instance, excels at a plan or a title page, another works away at the body of the book, and…
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You do not question an author who appears on the title page as "T.V.N. Persaud, M.D., Ph.D., D.Sc., F.R.C.Path. (Lond.), F.F.Path. (R.C.P.I.),…
— Mary Roach
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Conrad placed on the title page an epigraph taken from Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene: "Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas,…
— Joseph Conrad
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All their life in this world and all their adventures had only been the cover and the title page: now at last…
— C.S. Lewis
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She told me later that she had made a kind of note of me in her mind, as, scanning the shelf for…
— Evelyn Waugh
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