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Be sincere, be brief, be seated
Being slightly paranoid is like being slightly pregnant – it tends to get worse.
Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them
Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
Books are the carriers of civilization
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home: but unlike charity, it should end there.
Chance favors only the prepared mind
Children are not the people of tomorrow, but people today.
Choose an author as you would a friend
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
Every good journalist has a novel in him - which is an excellent place for it.
Everywhere I go, I am asked if I think the university stifles writers...
Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor
Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim
Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.
From the moment I picked your book up...
Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.
Great literature cannot grow from a neglected or impoverished soil...
Happiness belongs to the self sufficient
The Flower Sisters
by Michelle Collins Anderson
From the new Fannie Flagg of the Ozarks, a richly-woven story of family, forgiveness, and reinvention.
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
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