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“Laughter is the jam on the toast of life. It adds flavor, keeps it from being too dry, and makes it easier to swallow.”

Diane Johnson

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Statuettes of drunken sailors, velvet pictures of island maidens, plastic seashell lamps made in Taiwan. What contempt the people who think up souvenirs have…

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A novel's whole pattern is rarely apparent at the outset of writing, or even at the end; that is when the writer finds out…

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In what we think of as bad dialogue, the characters talk directly to each other.

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Not having to own a car has made me realize what a waste of time the automobile is.

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Glenda Adams has written a wicked and witty novel.

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The Novelist, afraid his ideas may be foolish, slyly puts them in the mouth of some other fool and reserves the right to disavow…

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...is this not in fact the purpose of young Americans going abroad? To make them think of things they never thought of?

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“Men are generally more law-abiding than women. Women have the feeling that since they didn't make the rules, the rules have nothing to do…

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“Well, their piety is more evolved,” said Mrs. Pace. “In America we have only two forms, as Matthew Arnold said: the bitter and the…

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Any essayist setting out on a frail apparatus of notings and jottings is a brave person.

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“Yet—some Frenchman had written—“absence diminishes commonplace passions and enhances great ones.”

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The whole process of writing a novel is having this great, beautiful idea and then spoiling it.

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Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other.

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Friendship, "the wine of life," should, like a well-stocked cellar, be continually renewed; and it is consolatory to think, that although we can seldom…

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Life as we know it is fundamentally unsatisfying. I think most folks feel this to be true. They know that a life of aimless…

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Give me a platter of choice finnan haddie, freshly cooked in its bath of water and milk, add melted butter, a slice or two…

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Writing adds up to the conscience of our times.

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A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the…

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Observation and theory get on best when they are mixed together, both helping one another in the pursuit of truth. It is a good…

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I may add that we have more than once stated our willingness to conclude nonaggression pacts with the states neighboring our own!

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The American Constitution declares 'All men are born equal.' The British Socialist Party add: 'All men must be kept equal'.

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New generations of humans inherit the acquired discoveries of generations past, allowing cosmic insight to accumulate without limit. Each discovery of science therefore adds…

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