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  1. Leo Tolstoy _ Anna Karenina

    What is reason given me for, if I am not to use it to avoid bringing unhappy beings into the world!
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  2. Anthony Powell _ A Dance to the Music of Time:

    Later in life, I learnt that many things one may require have to be weighed against one's dignity, which can be an insuperable barrier against advancement in almost any direction. However, in those days, choice between dignity and unsatisfied curiosity was less clear to me as a cruel decision that had to be made.
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  3. Anthony Powell _ The Acceptance World

    There is, after all, no pleasure like that given by a woman who really wants to see you.
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  4. Andrew Wilson _ Patricia Highsmith, Ζωή στο

    {Patricia Highsmith} was a figure of contradictions: a lesbian who didn't particularly like women; a writer of the most insightful psychological novels who, at times, appeared bored by people; a misanthrope with a gentle, sweet nature.
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  5. R.A. Salvatore _ The Orc King

    In any honest analysis, change is the basis of fear, the idea of something new, of some paradigm that is unfamiliar, that is beyond our experiences so completely that we cannot even truly predict where is will lead us.
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  6. Michael Chabon _ The Yiddish Policemen's Union

    A mere redrawing of borders, a change in governments, those things can never faze a Jewess with a good supply of hand wipes in her bag.
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  7. Ian Fleming _ Goldfinger

    The difference between a good golf shot and a bad one is the same as the difference between a beautiful and a plain woman --a matter of millimetres.
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  8. Steven Johnson _ Where Good Ideas Come from:

    Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings.
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  9. Steven Johnson _ Where Good Ideas Come from:

    This is not the wisdom of the crowd, but the wisdom of someone in the crowd. It's not that the network itself is smart; it's that the individuals get smarter because they're connected to the network.
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  10. Steven Johnson _ Where Good Ideas Come from:

    Chance favors the connected mind."
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  11. P.G. Wodehouse _ My Man Jeeves

    ...there occurred to me the simple epitaph which, when I am no more, I intend to have inscribed on my tombstone. It was this:"He was a man who acted from the best motives. There is one born every minute.
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  12. Vladimir Nabokov _ Laughter in the Dark

    A certain man once lost a diamond cuff-link in the wide blue sea, and twenty years later, on the exact day, a Friday apparently, he was eating a large fish - but there was no diamond inside. That's what I like about coincidence.
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