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🇺🇸Mark Twain

Literature

1835–1910

"There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus and upset the convictions and debauch the emotions of an audience not practised in the tricks and delusions of oratory."

"[On Bernard Shaw] An excellent man: he has no enemies, and none of his friends like him."

"There is only one time that is important -- NOW! It is the most important time because it is the only time that we have any power."

"I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be."

"How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this, I need someone to pour myself into."

"What I think the political correctness debate is really about is the power to be able to define. The definers want the power to name. And the defined are now taking that power away from them."

"People get real comfortable with their features. Nobody gets comfortable with their hair. Hair trauma. It's the universal thing."

"All men were alien one to another, at times, not only aliens."

"WOKING To enter the kitchen with the precise determination to perform something only to forget what it is just before you do it."

"For the first time I understood the haunting beauty of the song. It was the song of a killer who longed to die. It was the song of justice yearned for but not yet done."

"It is easy to love people in memory the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you."

"The window opened gently and a still Autumn night entered cat-like. Edwin smelt freedom and London autumn – decay, smoke, cold, motor oil."

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🇺🇸Nathaniel Hawthorne

Literature

Romanticism

1804–1864

"Would Time but await the close of our favorite follies, we should all be young men, all of us, and until Doom's Day."

"Like some wines our love could neither mature nor travel."

"I make a point of writing, if only a little, every day, as a kind of discipline so that it is not a whim but a piece of work."

"You'll never be able to let him go. You'll always feel wrong about being with me."

"“The Continental Congress resolved that your famous plainneff and modefty would be ill ferved were it known that a houfe for your horfe was paid for from the public purfe."

"I must confess the activities of the UK governments for the past couple of years have been watched with frank admiration and amazement by Lord Vetinari. Outright theft as a policy had never occurred to him."

"What happens is a continual surrender of himself as he is at the moment to something which is more valuable. The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality."

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🇺🇸Edgar Rice Burroughs

Literature

1875–1950

"She was quite the most wonderful animal that I have ever looked upon, and what few of her charms her apparel hid, it quite effectively succeeded in accentuating."

"“My imaginary friends have become my imaginary children.” —Chris Colfer on his characters"

"I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child. What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood, tempered and balanced by knowledge and common-sense..."

"A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men."

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🇫🇷Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Literature

1900–1944

"That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's because you're truly a wise man."

"Every writer has an ideal reader, I thought, and it was just my good luck that mine wanted to sleep with me."

"Black women all over the world should re-unite and re-examine the way history has portrayed us."

"The loneliness of the man is slowly being borne in upon me. There is not a man aboard but hates or fears him, nor is there a man whom he does not despise."

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🇬🇧Frank Cottrell-Boyce

Literature

b. 1959

"Jansson was an upper-middle-class bohemian lesbian, living on a tiny island in the Gulf of Finland . I was a suburban scouser on a new-build housing estate. It felt as though she was writing just for me."

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